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...meantime, a number of companies, including WebGear and Proxim, are offering inexpensive ways to connect the computers scattered throughout your home without the hassle of running complex (and expensive) grids of cables and routers between them. I decided to try Diamond Multimedia's HomeFree Wireless, since I know and use Diamond's excellent graphics card. The $199 DeskTop Pack connects two computers by radio waves; you can add as many as 15 others for $100 each. And for an additional $129, you can buy a HomeFree PCMCIA card and hook in a laptop...
...amateur. Jackson built the platform out of wood, covered it with lavender carpeting, and strung the room's circumference with black bulb Christmas lights. A black beanbag and an entertainment system populate one wall of the room, the other three surfaces are blanketed with angled mirrors arranged to create diamond panels. Flying in the face of the conventional leopard-print, Jackson opts for another pattern of the savannah: zebra stripe, on a pair of boxers--yes, that's right, underwear--hanging on a hook in the corner...
...Lord Jamar and Derrick--now Sadat--X weren't respected: their memorable appearances on Tribe's "Show Business" and Diamond D's "A Day in the Life" still get props. And how ridiculous is "Punks Jump Up to Get Beat Down," Brand Nubian's first post-Grand Puba & DJ Alamo single, to this day? Play it at your girl's birthday party, and everybody'll get open, guaranteed (as long as they're old enough...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...
...brought enough paper to make a stack 6 ft. high, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep. While Pollard apparently didn't ask for money up front, once he began spying, the Israelis paid him $2,500 monthly. Then there were the trips to Europe and a $7,000 diamond ring for Anne, whom Pollard divorced...