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Bushnell's baby, Atari, which he left in 1979, lost $539 million in 1983 when the video-game industry crashed. The following year his second big start-up, Pizza Time Theater, a chain of restaurants featuring singing robots with names like Chuck E. Cheese, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Despite these debacles, Bushnell sold off the ventures early enough to pocket about $70 million...
...first Abraham escapes Roman soldiers. He flees to Alexandria with his sons, who thrive until a civil war inflames the population. His grandson ventures to Rome, where persecutions resume; a few chapters later, a descendant is in North Africa, courting the daughter of a Jewish Berber. The holders of the scroll move to Spain, to Narbonne, to Italy and Salonika, Holland and Paris and Poland, where the final chapter is inscribed in ashes...
Although a sense of dread permeates each chapter, there are many instances of kindness. The family prospers for a time in France and Holland; members help to produce the first printed Bible and mix with the burghers of Amsterdam. While there is never a lack of assassins ready to throw the first stone, almost every generation encounters righteous gentiles without whom Jewish survival would have been impossible. Halter becomes an actor in the drama, much as Alex Haley did in Roots, piercing the narrative with his own meditations: "We are periodically asked to choose between the Land and the Book...
Rosenthal's retirement closes a chapter in one of the most extraordinary success stories in American journalism. The son of a Belorussian-born house painter, Abraham M. Rosenthal grew up in the Bronx and attended City College of New York. He started working for the Times as a $12-a-week campus stringer in 1943 and went on to become one of the paper's most celebrated foreign correspondents. His sensitive, flavorful dispatches from India, Poland and Japan made A.M. Rosenthal a familiar byline and won him a Pulitzer Prize...
Whoever it is who keeps the annals of sport should make a new entry in the chapter on fabled rivalries. No two chess masters have ever played each other so many times in such a short period as Gary Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov: an extraordinary 96 games during the past two years. When they finished last week, Kasparov had won the latest match and, by a single point, the entire series...