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...Unabomber began the epistolary striptease that in the end brought him down. Using, as was his custom, the madman's we, he wrote to the New York Times, taunting his hunters. "It doesn't appear that the FBI is going to catch us anytime soon," the letter said. He wrote to an earlier victim, Yale professor David Gelernter, saying, "If you had any brains, you would have realized that there are a lot of people out there who resent bitterly the way techno-nerds like you are changing the world, and you wouldn't have been dumb enough to open...
...pervades even the Internet, and dozens of other volumes on the search for Jesus are either just published or in the works. This week the cable channel Cinemax 2 will be running a program called The Gospel According to Jesus, which features celebrities and ordinary people reciting from a custom-tailored Bible. It is based on Scripture assembled by author Stephen Mitchell, who deleted many of Jesus' sayings and most of the events in his life, noting, "We can't be sure of anything that Jesus actually said." Experts on all sides of the question are crisscrossing the country, debating...
...tables] were custom made and refinishing costs the students," she said...
...extremely hard reed (Rico No. 5, about one step down from a roof shingle) and partly to his penchant for the now obsolete Albert system of keys and fingerings, favored by all the old-timers. When Woody's favorite horn cracked last year, France's Buffet company custom-made two Albert systems for him--the equivalent of Ford turning out a couple of brand new Model...
Though scandal and imprisonment for "acts of gross indecency with other male persons" had not yet ruined him and his career, Wilde was already familiar with the cruel custom of ostracism when he wrote this play. The plot alone is a harsh indictment of sanctimonious contemporary values. His character Mrs. Erlynne (Marina Re) is one such outcast. Every high-born man in the city calls on the reputed courtesan, but the courtesy of an invitation to balls and parties is never returned, the honor of which Erlynne desperately wants to regain...