Word: excerpting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is probably what it was. Quittner and Slatalla had just finished a book , about the rivalry between a gang of computer hackers called the Masters of Deception and their archenemies, the Legion of Doom -- an excerpt of which appears in the current issue of Wired magazine. And as it turns out, Wired was mail-bombed the same day Quittner was -- with some 3,000 copies of the same nasty message from the I.L.F. Speculation on the Net at week's end was that the attacks may have been the work of the Masters of Deception -- some of whom have...
...author's Lazarus-like return from death. A near-fatal bout with pneumonia leaves the newly resurrected Lawrence "with a heightened awareness of the physical world and a messianic tendency to preach." The author emerges as a different sort of evangelist than one might imagine. In an excerpt from one of his early poems, the virginal schoolmaster addresses his own sadly neglected member: "Thou proud, curved beauty Would worship these, letting my buttocks prance...
...BOOK EXCERPT: Long Walk to Freedom...
Murray ends his Wall Street Journal editorial (which is an excerpt from his forthcoming book) with a distressing conclusion: "Unchecked, these trends will lead the U.S. toward something resembling a caste society, with the underclass mired ever more firmly at the bottom and the cognitive elite ever more firmly anchored...
...Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 does when he says, "I think the other things I do are more important." If a service requirement is instituted, the natural market force of supply and demand for guts will rear its head yet again, as in this possible excerpt from the 1998-99 Confidential Guide about offerings in the new Community Service Core Program...