Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they right? It's hard to know whom to believe in this cloak-and-dagger debate. Civil libertarians tend to gloss over the fact that the world is full of bad people with crimes to hide. The software industry--which makes 48% of its profit overseas--is clearly less concerned with privacy than with losing foreign sales. And it may be no accident that the Administration chose to start making concessions the same week an influential software CEO--Netscape's Jim Barksdale--excoriated Clinton's cryptopolicy and endorsed Bob Dole...
...have a question: How could Perot, with the enormous assets available to him, not check out the credibility of controversial "sometime soldier of fortune" Scott Barnes and his charges of political intrigue by the Republican Party? Barnes has been lying to the public for years with his cloak-and-dagger make-believe charges about pow rescues, cia assassinations and finally Republican smear campaigns. Ross Perot and Scott Barnes deserve each other. WILL LEVISON Arlington, Virginia...
...cloak-and-dagger antics aren't just a publicity ploy. When Doom was released to its waiting public on midnight of Dec. 10, 1993, via the University of Wisconsin's computer system, the weight of 1,500 simultaneous download demands crashed the whole network. "Maximum overload," gloats Jay Wilbur, the marketing superego behind id. "We took the whole university...
...This was a real cloak and dagger thing," Rooney said. "He threatened to harm the victim if he didn't get cash. There was a serious threat to kill." Police declined to identify the victim or release any specifics concerning in what capacity the victim was employed by Harvard...
...royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward by an assassin hiding under the bed, suddenly emerges through the victim's chest...