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Johan Helsingius, a Finn who lives near Helsinki, had run anon.penet.fi as a hobby since November 1993, mainly because he loves the idea of truly free speech. There are now a dozen of these so-called anonymous remailers around the world, but Helsingius' is the oldest, best known and largest, having served more than half a million people. Anon.penet.fi and its owner are also the most notorious; together they survived E-mail "bombings" that threatened to bury the computer under millions of pages of garbage, death threats and even a recent scurrilous report in the London Observer that linked...
...hottest places on the Net--a top attraction on Prodigy, despite the page's lack of advertising, graphics, sound, color or flashing pyrotechnics. Or maybe as a result: Walter Miller's Home Page is just writing, hilarious writing, in the long tradition of lowbrow American satire. Think of Huck Finn, Forrest Gump and Beavis and Butt-head all channeled through the persona of a 20-year-old, acne-speckled, "boy-gennius programmer in the booming computer industry." Walter Miller's Home Page is little more than misspelled accounts of his exploits, posted to the Web each month. "I guess...
With that blue-ribbon endorsement, Raisio's product, marketed under the name Benecol, became a Finn-nomenon. People had to have it, although it has almost no flavor, costs 10 times as much as conventional margarine and is less effective at lowering cholesterol than prescription drugs like Mevacor. Now the Benecol buzz has crossed the Atlantic, thanks to a story last week on the front page of the New York Times. Americans, who love fat almost as much as the Finns do, may have to wait a few years to try Benecol, however. Raisio has yet to petition...
Shortly after the start of the first act, however, it's difficult to tell whether this is going to even be a comedy at all. C.C., played a little over-dryly by Celeste Finn, brings little life to the introductory scenes. She sticks out of her dysfunctional family like a mannequin amidst real flesh-and-blood people. Perhaps the most refreshingly honest moment in all of Act I comes when she turns to her former-lover-turned-brother-in-law Ed, who is begging her to star in his play, and admits, "I really can't act, Ed." Sometimes honesty...
...another child is not a surprise [Nation, June 3]. It is simply an election-year ploy to boost their images, to make voters forget Bill's tainted past and Hillary's Whitewater woes. Maybe their Hollywood friends believe what they say, but I doubt the American people will. ANN FINN Ridgefield, Connecticut Via E-mail...