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...basement to the 13th and 14th floors. For security reasons, the 21-year-old building had sealed windows both at the front and the rear, meaning the fire and smoke could not escape and the heat surged through the staircases where rescue operations were taking place. At the height of the fire, flames leapt from windows on the top three or four floors and the whole building was engulfed in heavy smoke. Steel window frames on the top floor were bent by intense heat. Some people inside waved pieces of cloth through ventilation shafts, trying to alert rescuers. Two government...
Wired invented geek mystique and made the promise of the wired world palpable. Perhaps if Louis had tried to go public a few months earlier--at the height of the Net mania he helped create--I would have been the latest, um, thousandaire. But he didn't. It's a mistake his competitors now celebrate like an armistice. Why? Louis tweaked the established media, by beating them to a rich new market. That was forgivable. But then he terrified them by predicting their demise--just as everybody now predicts his. Everybody...
There have been serious constitutional crises in previous administrations, [such as] Watergate.... [The] Iran-Contra affair was a serious constitutional breach. [This administration's] are hollow scandals of little consequence. Why has the press devoted more resources to these than, say, at the height of the health care debate, to health care? Whitewater is the phoniest of phonies. It has been protracted twice as long as Watergate. [From] the beginning of Watergate to [Nixon's] resignation was half the time of Whitewater so far, in which...nothing has been proved. In fact, according to the most comprehensive investigations...
...resent the claim repeated by Trudeau that every person of a certain age used drugs, especially marijuana. Perhaps I was isolated in special places, but I did not use drugs and know very few people who did. I accept Trudeau's confession as his own but consider it the height of arrogance that he feels the need to apologize for an entire generation when he really knows no reality other than his own. ROLFE HUNT Bainbridge, Georgia...
...really fully trusts anyone," said an official who has watched him closely for years. "He is very adroit at manipulating the friendships and animosities of those around him." Yeltsin's distrust of others and his gift for manipulation found its expression in the 1993 constitution. Drawn up at the height of Yeltsin's confrontation with the legislature, the constitution gave the President broad and vaguely defined prerogatives. The aim was to ensure that he, and only he, controlled all the levers of power...