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Meanwhile, a few new faces have entered the fray, with Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann joining Berkowitz's camp, and Jeffrey P. Swope '67 of the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge signing on as counsel for the three Faculty members of the Docket Committee...
...enough to tremble at the slightest twinge in our wrists. Idle hands would lapse unconsciously into the aptly-named "prayer stretch" as we invoked our various patron saints to protect us from the debilitating disease. These days, however, as the "RSI Action Group" mousepads at email terminals start to fray at the edges, the former scourge of the keyboard seems about as threatening as scurvy to most of us. In the words of one anonymous senior, it is "last year s disease...
...America Online and Microsoft have entered the fray over the Colorado-based MediaOne cable service. A bid in March for MediaOne by another another cable system called Comcast seemed like run-of-the-mill consolidation in the cable business. But last week AT&T came in with a much bigger offer, turning MediaOne into a reminder of telecom's future. Interest from Microsoft and AOL only extends these emerging battle lines even deeper into cyberspace...
...Fund is requiring troubled Third World nations to raise taxes and slash spending, that "euro" membership demands budget austerity, and that a U.S. President wants to hold on to budget surpluses. You can bet Keynes wouldn't be silent. Dapper and distinguished as he was, he'd enter the fray with both fists and a mighty roar...
Monica has been doing her part to keep the fray going. She exploded back onto the scene last week to promote her book, the saga of an insecure and overweight child of a broken Beverly Hills home whose need for love and attention led her to seduce a President. In her two-hour appearance on ABC, she came off as sad and, she admits, often silly ("I smiled too much... I was a little too candid"), a woman-child who couldn't keep quiet during or after her affair with Bill Clinton. Speaking to TIME, she was even tougher...