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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scrutiny by the press. The New York Times and The New Republic have both recently printed articles raising questions about his record and his positions. The Washington Post this past Sunday torturously went over Jackson's claim that he cradled the dead King in his arms. And Jackson's letter to Noriega has been publicized sufficiently enough perhaps to prevent him from winning Wisconsin...
...often elaborate productions. If a prize were given for the most overblown submission, the Arizona Republic might be a winner. It sent a scrapbook slightly larger than a full newspaper page (the board's expressed size limit), complete with a movie-poster-style cover. Inside, a five-page letter sang the praises of the Republic series on mismanagement in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and a thick stack of documents attested to the story's impact. "Next year I'm automatically going to vote against any entry that weighs more than I do," joked one weary reader. Juror Alan Moyer...
...John Updike (Knopf; $17.95). In this modern Scarlet Letter, a Massachusetts wife flees to a zany Arizona ashram, recounting her adventures in penetrating (and sometimes scarlet) letters...
...part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...
...PS/2 line of personal computers. Presentation Manager is virtually identical to Windows 2.03, and any legal restraints placed on Windows can be expected to apply with equal force to the IBM program. That is the real target of Apple's suit, says Richard Shaffer, editor of Technologic Computer Letter. "Apple wants to delay, stall, confuse or otherwise hold at bay IBM's Presentation Manager...