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Friends and critics call Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle by many names -- Prince of Darkness, Darth Vader, evil genius -- and the witty Perle loves them all. By title, Richard (as he is invariably referred to in Washington) is merely one of eleven Assistant Secretaries, a third-echelon Pentagon aide. In practice, Perle is widely acknowledged to be a major architect of U.S. arms-control policy, though to his opponents he is a bureaucratic Machiavelli who deviously torpedoed all reasonable prospects for agreement...
...high-tech wonders are created in a surprisingly low-tech cluster of buildings in a suburban office park. A sign out front says THE KERNER COMPANY --a deception intended, company officials say, to keep away youngsters who used to rummage through the garbage looking for cast-off Darth Vaders and E.T.s. The ambiance is casual; blue jeans and running shoes are ubiquitous, and a family spirit prevails. "It's a group effort rather than a search for personal glory," says George Joblove, who joined ILM last year to help develop a computer-graphics department. "There's a nice sense...
...says, "I simply left the world of being a hoodlum" and worked his way through a number of degrees to a vice presidency at the University of Texas, El Paso; there he earned a dual reputation as an innovative manager and cheerful nut who liked to dress up as Darth Vader. At Evergreen, in addition to making appearances as the Pink Panther and the Easter Bunny, Olander has chopped some administrative positions and taken hold of a budget that, while hardly lavish ($7 million), amounts to a vote of confidence from once skeptical lawmakers. The faculty stands behind...
Across the state, if the St. Louis Cardinals were to yield the National League's East division, they pretty much had to lose three straight games to the New York Mets, and they pretty nearly did. Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog rearranged Ace John Tudor's date with Darth Gooden only to lock Tudor and well-bred Yalie Ron Darling into a 0-0 death grip, broken like a windowpane on an eleventh-inning Darryl Strawberry home run that, except for the stadium clock being digital, put spectators in mind of Roy Hobbs. Naturally, Gooden won the second game, his 24th...
Luke Skywalker would be dazzled. Darth Vader would be downright intimidated. Right here on earth, and not in any distant galaxy, a new kind of war is escalating between technological stars IBM and AT&T. By the end of the century, the way that Americans get all sorts of information, from television programs to bank-account balances, could be changed. Between them, IBM and AT&T dominate the U.S. computer and telecommunications industries. Both have long itched to invade each other's markets, but not until now have they faced off with arsenals so fully loaded...