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...What irks us are not the creepy traitors of super-power relations but the sanctimonious hypocrites of everyday life. The people who preach one thing and do the opposite. Who practice the very sins they persecute in others. Elmer Gantry. Jim Bakker. And, speaking of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover. There's a special satisfaction when they get their comeuppance...
...went from the society to a professorship in Harvard's philosophy department, where he ultimately became Edgar Pierce professor...
Thank you, TIME, for the humor in your Notebook section of your issue on the election standoff. Reading it definitely lowered my blood pressure. EDGAR C. STUNTZ Manitowoc...
...technique is a modernization of the classic optical illustration developed by Edgar Rubin in which viewers see either a vase or two faces depending on how they direct their attention. The viewers perceive one of the two patches as being in the foreground and the other as being in the background by choosing where to direct their attention...
...late August, Middelhoff decided to go after Napster himself. Ironically, he came to that conclusion after a meeting with Seagram chairman Edgar Bronfman Jr., a staunch Napster foe, in which they discussed ways to resolve the Napster question. "We walked out of Edgar's office, and Thomas and I looked at each other, and it just clicked," says Andreas Schmidt, president of the Bertelsmann E Commerce Group, who orchestrated the partnership. That day Schmidt got on the phone to Napster CEO Hank Barry and began eight weeks of intense transcontinental negotiations, from San Francisco to Miami, New York City...