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Upstairs, the digital aristocracy was on parade. IBM, Compaq, the company formerly known as Bell Labs. There was Microsoft in a sprawling "pavilion," surrounded by legions of loyal affiliates. Next door, Sun Microsystems occupied a comparable fortress, flanked by scores of its own Java-fueled, death-to-Microsoft freedom fighters...
...ground for rookies and a house of punishment for white firemen who had fallen out of favor with their bosses. Most of those men took little interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel door open nearly 20 hours a day. At that point something unexpected...
...there's another country, I've heard of long ago, Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know; We may not count her armies, we may not see her King; Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering; And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase, And her ways are ways of gentle- ness and all her paths are peace...
Discount airlines are still the most potent force in challenging the high fares in the majors' "fortress hubs." Before ValuJet resumed service between Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth in April, a round-trip ticket cost $490; subsequently, the price dropped to $138. Flying into an "alternative city" served by many discount carriers can also shave dollars. A round trip between San Diego, Calif., and Washington costs $564, but flying into Baltimore, Md., instead, a route now covered by Southwest, costs $268. "The low-cost carriers are driving the big guys crazy in cities where there was no competition," says Parsons...
DIED. DAVID LUDLUM, 86, weatherwise historian whose meteorological forecasts influenced the course of World War II; in Princeton, N.J. Well before smiling suns and animated cold fronts gained the day (and screen), this soldier-forecaster surveyed the skies to help time a successful assault on a German fortress in Italy...