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...Quebec gained control after Nolan tied it on a power play 4:29 later. He knocked down a crisp pass by Forsberg and lifted the puck over goaltender Patrick...
What Le Carre offers readers instead of bells and whistles is hard to summarize but clearly present once again in Our Game (Knopf; 302 pages; $24). There is a sinuous plot, leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting. There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding an undercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not see himself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much as with the forces arrayed against...
...good story about how a government-funded computer at one of the nation's nuclear weapons labs had been used to store more than 1,000 pornographic images on the Internet. When he later logged onto the WELL bulletin-board service, he found he'd been flamed to a crisp. ``Misleading,'' complained one member. ``Excrement!'' cried another. He got so much electronic hate mail that he had to turn off his mailbox. ``The impression I got was, `We don't want snoopy reporters in here. This is our playground, and you're not welcome,' '' Bauman said later. Bauman was hardly...
There is something to be said for the feel of crisp bills or clinking change in the palm of your hand, but credit cards and automatic teller machines (ATMs) are taking over the market for money. The machines have popped up on every street corner, and you can pay with plastic just about everywhere-even supermarkets happily accept ATM cards these days. Limits on credit availability and allowable amounts for purchases have also begun to varnish...
...Mleczko and Leitzes were unstoppable; each scored two goals in the middle period. Mleczko and Leitzes's were the only four Harvard shots in the second, but they all lit the lamp, courtesy of some Providence defensive lapses and crisp Harvard passing and skating...