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Sinatra himself makes no excuses. "I'm feeling fine," he told TIME last week in a rare interview, conducted via fax. (It is the way he handles all requests for comments from the press.) As for Grammy night, Sinatra admits to being emotional. "When I walked out onstage at Radio City Music Hall, I wanted to shake hands with everyone there...
...center is the Clipper Chip, a semiconductor device that the NSA developed and wants installed in every telephone, computer modem and fax machine. The chip combines a powerful encryption algorithm with a "back door" -- the cryptographic equivalent of the master key that opens schoolchildren's padlocks when they forget their combinations. A "secure" phone equipped with the chip could, with proper authorization, be cracked by the government. Law-enforcement agencies say they need this capability to keep tabs on drug runners, terrorists and spies. Critics denounce the Clipper -- and a bill before Congress that would require phone companies to make...
...vigilantly enforcing restrictions against overseas sales of competing encryption systems, the government is trying to make it difficult for any alternative schemes to become widespread. If Clipper manages to establish itself as a market standard -- if, for example, it is built into almost every telephone, modem and fax machine sold -- people who buy a nonstandard system might find themselves with an untappable phone but no one to call...
...until he fingers the guilty party. The better shows at least try to bring their criminology into the '90s: the key to the solution of Cosby's first mystery -- Who is murdering a corporation's top executives? -- was the redial feature on a victim's car fax...
Chen says he plans to add some new features to serve his customers, including a copy machine and a fax. Copies will cost five cents...