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...smart--it wasn't cool to be too smart. So even though I knew all the answers on the math tests, I'd get one wrong on purpose. Just so I'd get a "97" instead of an "100." Just so I wouldn't look like a total geek...
...wanders among his glammy new best friends, an invisible all-access backstage pass dangling from his neck, Bill Clinton is not squandering his populist image. Rather, he's showing himself to be too much a man of the people, reverting to white-trash form, one more grinning geek queuing up at Graceland. "Back when I saw him at ((a fund raiser at producer)) Ted Field's house," says a politically active movie $ star, "with his mouth open, star struck, I said, 'Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus.' I think he likes people. And I think he genuinely likes famous people...
...Rosenfeld, the alleged MODsters and their ilk do not fit the standard image of a hacker: the wealthy, suburban geek who trespasses on computers just for fun. These cyberpunks are ethnically mixed (from blacks and Hispanics to Italians and Lithuanians), favor close-cropped hip-hop haircuts and live in urban, blue-collar neighborhoods. They fight rival gangs with cheap computers, not sticks or knives. Some are big drug users; most are simply addicted to what Rosenfeld calls the "adrenaline rush of computer power, which is better than sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll...
...recent article on the Greenhouse Cafe's new rule against what seems to me to be good old-fashioned loitering on the part of Harvard's geek elite is really the final straw...
...President or Messiah; and he declares he would not apply for either job. Other listeners abhor the political product but enjoy the spiel. You can find diversion in any aspect of the Limbaugh carnival: the tight-wire walker or the Tilt-a-Whirl, the sideshow barker or the geek. You might even find it salutary to have your own exalted prejudices shaken by him. Last time we looked, Rush was still popular, and the Republic was still standing...