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...magazine turned the news into saga, comedy, melodrama. The very compression of early TIMEstyle, invented almost entirely by Hadden, lent it an urgency of mannered telegraphese. John Martin, Hadden's cousin and an early writer and editor at the magazine, left this account of Hadden at work: "Brit would edit copy to eliminate unnecessary verbiage...If you wrote something like 'in the nick of time,' five words, he might change it to 'in time's nick,' three words...At all times he had by him a carefully annotated translation of the Iliad. On the back cover, he had listed hundreds...
...disruptive presence was quickly felt in Gayl's life. Morrison's relationship with Gayl was severed in the wake of his demand that she audition to edit Gayl's fourth book. Says Morrison: "I wrote her a letter saying that editing her work was a highlight of my life but that I thought she needed an editor she could trust." Other friends and relatives also found themselves cut off. When the two ran off to Europe, Gayl left behind letters addressed to the university and Ronald Reagan, declaring, "I reject your lying, racist s___. God is with...
WASHINGTON: After weeks of watching and waiting, President Clinton is reportedly ready to take his biggest legal leap against Ken Starr. According to several news organizations, Clinton has began steps to invoke executive privilege in an attempt to edit top aide Bruce Lindsey's testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House aides would neither confirm nor deny the report...
...good solution for these programs is to buy a commercial uninstall program, like MicroHelp's Uninstaller series and Vertisoft's Remove-It. These programs will look through your system files for you and remove the files you no longer need. They also edit configuration files, such as CONFIG.SYS and SYSTEM.INI, and remove junk left behind by old programs...
Assuming pine does not automatically retrieve the interrupted message, you want to edit pine and at the prompt type the command "Is", which gives you a listing of the files in your home directory. The more useful version of the command is "Is-1l more". Don't worry about how nasty this looks; just do it. It will list the files and their dates and other information...