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Smallest Advertisement Using a powerful microscope, IBM researchers lined up individual xenon atoms to spell out the company's initials. That clever display of know-how got magnified pictures of the minuscule logo into newspapers all over the world -- for free...
...capable of rage and deceit and all the other low emotions that people educated at Yale, working on Wall Street and living on Park Avenue usually never discover within themselves, let alone admit in public. They are also the sounds of a man abandoning the last defense of privilege: clever, distancing and self-deluding articulateness. And they are entirely absent from this adaptation of Wolfe's novel...
...much simpler than that. Every book in Widener library is a potential target of theft. You needn't even be that clever or devious to steal books from Harvard; it's as easy as walking out the door...
...Bush's elaboration accurately reflects his real intentions, then the diplomatic shuttling to come is probably best viewed as a clever public- relations exercise, a dance designed to convince audiences at home and abroad that the anti-Saddam coalition has exhausted every possibility for a peaceful resolution to the crisis before going to war. "When ((Bush)) saw us last month," says a senior Kuwaiti official, "we were told we would hear and see a lot of things that might be upsetting but that he was not going to give in and that in the end it will be important...
...center of The New Russians is the story of one Russian in particular, Mikhail Gorbachev. Smith deftly presents a biography of Gorbachev that puts him into the context of national malaise: clever enough to advance through the mediocrities of the party, honest enough to recognize the need for change. He believes Gorbachev has already achieved greatness by creating a civil society in a country where political passivity and dictatorship had always been the norm. Informal organizations at the grass roots and the emerging institutions of parliament, independent courts and a free press will eventually lead to a multiparty system...