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Steve Case had plenty to be thankful for last Thursday. The CEO of America Online sat down to turkey with his family just two days after announcing a deal to devour Netscape Communications nearly whole (he carved off a piece for his friends at Sun Microsystems). The initial spin on the most momentous merger in Internet history was that it put the world's leading online service first in line for electronic commerce and entertainment--a market that could be worth trillions in just a few years...
...sperm whales are mammals and rely on oxygen from the surface to survive. Consequently, scientists find it hard to fathom how sperm whales can dive to depth of 4,000 feet, search out and devour giant squid in the complete darkness and return to the surface in time to breathe again...
...Starr gets his way, a very shortsighted Congress will devour the President. Then the people, in revulsion, will devour the Congress. Empires die; it is only a matter of when it will happen. Each generation has to renew its vigor. DONALD KINGSBURY Montreal...
...starting a substantive conversation...aye, there's the rub. A lot of people fear that some monster called "Political Correctness" is going to devour them if they slip up--if they, for instance, forget to use the adjective "[fill-in-the-blank]-ly-challenged." Only peppering one's speech with the words "pluralism," "diversity," and "sensitivity," it seems, will appease the beast...
...some stories are so deeply embedded in a culture that like black holes, they have the power to overwhelm and devour lesser tales that stray into their fierce field of gravity. Tawana's narrative--a messy, lesser tale that in a society uncontaminated by race hate would have been universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till...