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...great stone wall. One reason the movie of All the President's Men was so scary was that it captured the crumminess behind the wall, not unlike the Watergate burglary itself. Think of that splendid moment when a TV screen showed Nixon being sworn in for his, hmm, second term while the Woodstein typewriter clacked at his door...
...physical decline. I am approaching 40, and I have had to make zero concessions to getting older. Well, sure, when I wake up my joints sound like monkeys on drugs fencing with baseball bats. Think I'll just sit right down here and Uhhh!...Oh, my, oh, my, Hmm, hmm, hmm. Ah, what the heck, if those young lions want me, they can come get me, but I am not getting up. ALEX KASEBERG San Diego Via E-mail...
...were inhaling hairspray--picture your stereotypical, sleezoid mob lawyer and you only begin to brush the surface. But his ridiculous appearance was nothing compared to his questions. First came: "How many of you watch 'E.R.?'" Several of us raised our hands proudly and several others followed sheepishly. "Um hmm" came his victorious reply as he made notes--he had caught us! After that, I just tuned out, not really wanting to deal with why the lawyer was asking me if I watched a popular medical drama in order to determine if I was qualified to sit on a gun possession...
...Straus & Giroux). The Galatea in this reworking of the myth is not a statue but an enormously complicated network of computer circuitry that, on a bet, is being taught to think. The Pygmalions--there are a couple of them--are an acerbic cyber-scientist and a lovelorn novelist named (hmm?) Richard Powers. A scheme that might seem mechanical and too clever works out instead to be humane and thoughtful and, when the computer is troubled by 3 a.m. brooding ("What race am I? What races hate me?"), surprisingly moving...
...Further down the form.) Hmm, looks the same except--what's this--they want to know race! Don't they have this sort of information on file already? Suppose it's easier for us to fill it in than for them to look it up. But why? Is race going to play a part in this process? At the University level? At the national level? Hmm...