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...look to your left and your right like they told you when you got here, but there is no one around. The Help Desk is closed. No computer science concentrator is there to come to your rescue. And you dare not call your House user assistant at this hour. You are utterly alone in the universe...
...gifted writer [BOOK EXCERPT, Sept. 22]. His very personal account of violence and recovery after surviving a Unabomber attack carries the reader along with him, inside his mind and heart, from moment to moment. Gelernter's courage is in his compelling honesty and intimate detail. Any of us who dare to even attempt to write must thank him for the gift of this account. BRUCE T. WILLIAMS Renton, Wash...
...witness had "been instructed by IRS management not to conduct audits of particular taxpayers who happen to be personal friends of someone in IRS management." Why so shy about coming forward? One agent claimed to be "painfully aware of the ability of the IRS to retaliate against employees who dare to speak out." Heard around Agency watercoolers Monday: "I was sick! Really...
...reformer Deng Xiaoping, had been rumored for weeks, it was still greeted with wonder. "It's breathtaking," said Charles W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. diplomat. "Nothing on that scale has ever been attempted." Others saw the change as a risky move. "Jiang is doing what Deng did not dare do," says a Chinese political analyst in Beijing. "He's putting the bankrupt state sector on the block even at the risk of social instability...
...given generously to British charities. "You don't want to work hard for 40 years and have a bunch of crooks and bastards and gun runners insult you," he recently told the New York Times. "They say, 'You own Harrods, you bloody Egyptian coming from Africa. How can you dare buy Harrods?'" Al Fayed got a measure of revenge against the Conservative Party, which he particularly blames for his rejection, when he helped bring down John Major's government by disclosing that Tory Members of Parliament took money from him in paper bags or accepted his hospitality at the Ritz...