Word: collectors
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NAME'S THE SAME The Melissa computer virus made headlines last week, crippling e-mail systems around the nation. At the same time, other famous Melissas were engaged in more constructive endeavors. Actress Melissa Gilbert was shooting a CBS movie called Soul Collector, while rocker Melissa Etheridge performed at an event to raise awareness about the plight of women in Afghanistan. E! hostess Melissa Rivers, fresh from her marathon coverage of the Oscars, was at a clinic on horse jumping with her husband. No word on Melissa Manchester...
Furthermore, pro wrestling is gaining in respectability. Go to a music store and check out the plethora of wrestling-related CDs. Last week's TV Guide--a main-stream publication if there ever was one--featured different wrestlers on special collector's covers. And for the ultimate vindication, stop by the Minnesota governor's office...
...finest old manuscripts are no longer the exclusive domain of scholars and wealthy collectors. Now, thanks to Octavo Corp. of Palo Alto, Calif., anyone with a computer and CD-ROM drive can enjoy priceless works by Galileo, Shakespeare, Ben Franklin and other greats exactly as they appear in the originals--complete with watermarks, worn pages and wormholes. Says Richard Kuhta, librarian of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington: "You can do everything but smell the book." What's more, readers can instantly search these digital copies, unlike the originals, to find a word or phrase. Co-founded by Adobe Systems...
...hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...
Ross (David Schwimmer) cracks the whip trying to force Joey (Matt LeBlanc) to write his own script. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) volunteers at the Salvation Army, but gets fired for threatening people who use her collector bin as a rubbish bin. Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) dates Danny (George Newbern) but grows uneasy when she sees his "closeness" with his visiting sister (Julie Lauren...