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...demurs when asked about his ambitions. He says he's happy being a Senator, a legislator who, as he puts it, "likes to work and get things done around here." Besides, he's busy nurturing a late-blooming secondary career writing lyrics to spiritual and patriotic songs. His first compact disc of 13 religious songs is due out next month. In a ballad dedicated to his wife and put to country music, Hatch wrote, "I've gotten everything I wanted, everything I've been hoping for." That's a claim Hatch's opponents hope doesn't stay true for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HATCHING MISCHIEF | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Digital broadcasting encodes data--in this case, the video and audio signal sent by a station--in binary form as ones and zeroes. Computers and compact discs are dependent on digital encoding instead of the older analog methods...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

...Harry Lewis, Nancy Maull, Peter Gomes, Theda Skocpol, and Daniel Steiner issued a report which PBHA Inc. interpreted as a long-term hostile takeover attempt by the Dean of the FAS. In response, long sessions were held to further strengthen PBHA Inc. leadership by forming a compact Board of Trustees which would include undergraduate and non-undergraduate members...

Author: By Gregory A. Johnson, | Title: Text of Johnson's Letter | 4/8/1997 | See Source »

...quite beautiful, actually, the cartridge. The butt. The smooth, compact cylinder. A representation of, and attempt to display, masculinity? Perhaps. A phallic symbol? I think...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: An After Dessert Thing | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...superfluous as a swimming lesson for Mark Spitz. Flatley knows well how to assert himself. When he isn't dancing, he is swaggering; when he isn't in stage sequins, he is wearing leather, diamonds and enough cologne to deodorize a landfill in July. At 38 and a compact 5 ft. 9 in., he resembles a cross between Mikhail Baryshnikov and Michael Bolton. He tends to speak in proclamation: "I know what I want out of life, and I go for it...I am a very confident individual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCE: MR. BIG OF THE NEW JIG | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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