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...been another hot year for consumer electronics, one that saw Toshiba release an impressive desktop PC, Sony take a first crack at a personal computer and a swarm of companies come out with hand-held devices, including the first really usable palm-top computer from U.S. Robotics. The year also included the nearly incessant squeal of Internet hype--and a stock market that couldn't get enough of hot-concept technology issues. It was all enough to send droves of Americans out to buy...a game machine...
Brown is a wonderfully understated Albert Einstein in his suave argyle sweater vest and white lab coat, enunciating phrases like "workaday wedding" and "wonderful witticism" with a charming Teutonic lisp. DeLima overacts deliberately, and is spot-on, portraying Retton as if she were on crack, which is the only way to portray...
...contend that only a crack addict has the right to discuss the problems of drug addiction. Obviously, we are all entitled to formulate opinions and test them in deliberation. We are all entitled to expect better from our world. My fault with the bulk of the "elite" is their total lack of humility...
Waters is a veteran legislator and an unapologetic liberal. Enraged by recent allegations that the CIA might have financed a crack cocaine ring in her district--where poverty and black-on-black gang violence are common--she immediately called for official investigations. Though the congressional majority may regard her fervor with disdain, Waters has overwhelming support at home, where she has never won less than 75% of the vote...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "The harder we try, the more crack babies are being born...[The CIA] is just as guilty as if it delivered the kilos themselves...