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...people say, "Sarajevo is abandoned, left alone." It's remarkable how people who say such things really don't have a clue. The world -- at least the part that makes decisions -- was never with Sarajevo or Bosnia to begin with. To say we've been abandoned now only adds insult to injury. Come Jan. 1, Sarajevo will have been under siege for 1,000 days -- 1,000 days of solitude. How can anyone say that it is only now that we've been abandoned...
...lawn -- someone, operating by remote control, had broken into computers at IBM, Sprint and a small Internet service provider called the Pipeline, seized command of the machines at the supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool of greed." It was signed by something called the Internet Liberation Front, and it ended like this: "Just a friendly warning corporate America...
...dead wrong, and she should have realized just how divisive her words were. Moreover, it's hypocritical for the leader of the Black Students Association--an organization that has expressed support for minority rights and strong opposition to racism--to endorse racist views that so obviously denigrate and insult another minority...
...time who say, 'I went to college to study this or that because of Star Trek."' Jonathan Frakes, Commander Riker on The Next Generation, concurs: "If you go in looking for geeks and nerds, then yeah, you'll find some. But this is a show that doesn't insult the audience. It is intelligent, literate and filled with messages and morals -- and that's what most of the people who watch are interested...
Manet thought "the most wounding insult that can be made to an artist" was to be called a history painter -- but he wanted to paint history too, though of a more recent sort: the killing of the Mexican Emperor Maximilian; and the battle between two Civil War ships, the Alabama and the Kearsarge, in French waters. The latter came out as a sort of imaginary journalism, rapidly painted to catch the urgency of a moment that, in fact, the painter hadn't seen. And though Manet was not notable for his piety in real life, he tried to reinvigorate biblical...