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Envisioning a life spent in the prison library at Bedford Hills, "in the company of women who do not care about Jane Austen," Rosie goes on the lam to find the murderer. Was it Richie's old partner Mitch, so antisocial he orders his pizza by fax? Or Richie's new girlfriend Jessica, the blond M.B.A. with the six-figure salary and no cellulite? (So why wasn't Jessica found with a kitchen knife in her chest?) Was it Rosie's Waspy neighbor who makes brioche from scratch, using the seven-hour classic recipe (no freezing the dough)? Or Richie...
...Rather than make PCs from scratch, they buy everything from circuit boards, displays and disk drives to entire computers from foreign firms that largely copy American PC designs. Says Brad Smith, vice president of PC research at Dataquest: "All you need to start a PC company today is a fax machine to take orders and a Black & Decker screwdriver to assemble the parts...
Working on a holiday may not seem odd for a woman who has spent many New Year's weekends talking policy and trading fax numbers with new friends at the Renaissance Weekend retreats for the well-connected on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina...
...things we do is offer very good rates and 24-hour turnaround," he said. "The whole system is pretty much computerized. We can fax out articles, courier articles, [send] articles [by Federal Express]--we're able...
...even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads the preamble, "our generation labors in the expanding shadow of a monstrous national debt." Baby boomers are given a political threat: "We grew up amidst the betrayals of Vietnam...