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...Peter's, 2:00 p.m. W. Hockey at Colby, 2:00 p.m. Fencing at Columbia, 10:00 a.m. M. Squash at Cornell, 10:00 a.m. W. Squash at Cornell, 12:00 p.m. W. Swimming at Harvard Invit., all day Track vs. Boston College, 12:00 p.m. Wrestling at Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational...
...Buckhead mansions north of Atlanta, down through the bustling business district and into the slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes, who but a dandy like Wolfe would note the difference between a twist-weave suit and a hard-finished worsted...
...past two years, the 53-year-old Berger, a lawyer, has remade the national security staff. He is a detail man who puts in 15-hour days and spends Sundays making lists of issues he wants to tackle. He has a keen eye for the domestic politics that shape foreign policy and offers up a range of views leading to different options. That satisfies the President's need to keep his own finger on the trigger...
...wireless data transfer on the Palm III and a voice-memo feature on Casio's Cassiopeia. The research firm IDC predicts that by 2002, U.S. handheld sales will triple to 6.9 million units--about the same number of notebooks sold in the U.S. this year. Why are consumers so keen on handhelds? While failed products like the Apple Newton tried to handle too many tasks, says IDC analyst Jill House, today's handhelds perform just a few basic organizing functions extremely well...
...evidence," offered the Ohio Republican. "I think that we're making some real progress." Although the direction of that progress was unclear, committee chair Henry Hyde renewed his vow to have the whole inquiry wrapped up by the New Year. Democrats, of course, are equally keen to get it over with -? which is why they raised no objection to Lindsey's appearance and agreed to waive that contentious attorney-client privilege (much to Bill Clinton's chagrin; the President complained that calling a plaintiff's private lawyer was "without precedent"). And for those of us who've seen too much...