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Inventing a terrorist conspiracy and then setting it in contemporary Jerusalem may seem a coals-to-Newcastle sort of enterprise. Why bother with make-believe when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes...
...Internet-savvy guy, Hirsch is building his empire by encouraging other websites to be portals to his peep shows; referrers get a third of the gate. But it's a tough, competitive business. Hirsch figures there are at least five other companies like his selling one-on-one Net strip shows. How long will the appetite for cybersex last? "I figure we've got only 15% to 20% of our potential users online," he said. "The Internet is going to take off more than anyone will believe." That is, if there's anything left to take...
With the DOJ and states' attorneys general still hedging on a definitive declaration of intent to file suit against Microsoft this week, Sun was first out of the gate Tuesday with a request to forbid Microsoft to distribute Windows 98 unless it contains Sun's version of Java. Sun already has a lawsuit in progress against Microsoft for taking liberties with Java, an issue that has also atttracted the attention of the DOJ. But much remains in doubt at this point. The DOJ and the states -- whose number has grown from the 13 that originated the investigation -- are still widely...
...speech was pointedly delivered on the 24th anniversary of the day that president refused to let the courts hear his Oval Office tapes -- and to the same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking...
...legitimate postering. Second, return to the tradition of banners on Holworthy Hall, which were discontinued due to the 1994 renovations of that building. These banners would allow large-scale announcements of a major events and help replace the need for multiple-poster plastering of the walls of Thayer Gate. Third, utilize the space on the walls of the Science Center (where science lectures are currently listed) for similar large-scale announcements. Fourth, allow announcements to be chalked up on the side boards of the Science Center lecture halls. Fifth, permit the use of temporary sidewalk chalk, thereby providing...