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Despite the phrases which teach, even instruct, and despite the powerful anger these poems convey, their most striking element is love. Almost every poem ends with a phrase describing a healing, embattled love: "but the night was dark/ and love was a burning fence/ about my house," she writes at the end of "Gemini." "Quiet love hangs/ in the door of my house/ a sheet of brick-caught silk/ rent in the sun" concludes "Echo", also written in the 1950s. But "Dreams Bite", written in 1968, ends "I shall love/ again/ when I am obsolete...
Finally, we suggest that all insinuations of poor planning be directed to the few departments who reneged on their promises to participate. In the future, we recommend to the editors of this publication that they instruct their writers in obtaining all the facts before they print a story. Brandon C. Gregoire '95 Sean M. Becker '94 Co-Chairs of the Academics Committee
...saving grace of the new technology is that the computer intelligence used to find you in the trout stream can also be used to filter out unwanted messages. Users can instruct their computer to give top priority to urgent messages from family members and to reroute all calls from a particularly obnoxious sales representative. "The idea is to create a permeable wall between work and your private life, between the inside and outside world," says Release 1.0's Michalski. And if that fails, you can always forget to recharge the batteries...
...prose by Ken Goffman (writing under the pen name R.U. Sirius) and Alison Kennedy (listed on the masthead as Queen Mu, "domineditrix"), with help from Rudy Rucker and a small staff of free-lancers and contributions from an international cast of cyberpunk enthusiasts. The goal is to inspire and instruct but not to lead. "We don't want to tell people what to think," says assistant art director Heide Foley. "We want to tell them what the possibilities...
...that point, Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin stepped in to mediate, proposing a compromise in which Clinton would "instruct" Aspin to draft the Executive Order over a six-month period. Aspin sold the plan to Clinton at a Blair House meeting three days before the Inauguration, but that too was leaked before Aspin met with the Chiefs. When he did, he discovered that the Chiefs had grown much more resistant. Aspin's attempts to keep the Chiefs on board failed during a stormy two-hour session in the top-secret, soundproof "tank" at the Pentagon...