Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dinner table in Bel Air--and also at Hearst's San Simeon, where he was a favorite of Marion Davies, keeping her giggling as they went outside for a swig. A former New Yorker drama critic and a full-time gambler, drinker and wit, Mank was the missing link between Hearst and Welles. Befriending the new kid, he proposed they write a life of a newspaper tycoon...
...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...typical ambushing of the real by the preposterous. In his speeded-up growth, which makes him bigger than everyone else his age--"I was a skyscraper freed of all legal restraints, a one-man population explosion, a megalopolis"--the Moor can stand as an embodiment of India itself. The link is underscored by the pulls and tugs on his loyalties, the presumptive European strain in his ancestry and the transreligion union between his Christian mother and Jewish father: "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew...
...expected, Jesse Jackson Jr., son of the civil rights activist, handily beat his G.O.P. opponent for the Chicago-area House seat vacated by scandal-tainted Mel Reynolds. In California, Republican Tom Campbell turned back a Democratic attempt to link him to Speaker Newt Gingrich and won a San Jose House seat, and former Democratic state assembly speaker Willie Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco...
Science has neither proved nor disproved the existence of the itinerant preacher and wonder worker who Christians believe was the Son of God. After all, writes biblical scholar R.T. France, "no 1st century inscription mentions him and no object or building has survived which has a specific link to him." Nonetheless, recent finds in the Holy Land have provided a wealth of insights into the milieu from which belief in Christ emerged...