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...password makes its holder a "super user,"capable of controlling the HASCS computers and allUnix accounts...
...Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over the network contained a patented compression scheme and that the patent holder was demanding royalty payments, somebody came up with an alternative: gef, a graphics-exchange format that worked just like gif but was patent-free...
...were pitted against the nation's top-ranked team, Michigan, led by sophomore Olympian Tom Dolan, the world-record holder in the 200-individual medley. Thirteenth-ranked Florida, Yale and Boston University rounded off the competition...
...declares the narrator of The Glass Menagerie. In the poignant, powerful 50th-anniversary revival that has just begun a limited run on Broadway, the memory in question is clearly that of Tennessee Williams. A large photograph of the playwright looms over the set that confronts the arriving audience. Cigarette holder in hand, he contemplates a written page. After the houselights dim, a young man comes on stage and begins to type. The projection changes to a blank piece of paper. The young man lights a cigarette, then addresses the audience, his wry drawl and courtliness gently recalling Williams himself...
Gone was 40 years of Democratic control of the lower house of Congress. Gone was the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the first holder of that office to be defeated at the polls since 1862. Gone were Democratic Governors in at least 11 states. Gone, perhaps finally this time, was the once solid Democratic domination of the Southern states. Gone was the most eloquent defender of the liberal faith in America, New York Governor Mario Cuomo...