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...APPLE? THAT WAS the loudest buzz question in Silicon Valley last week, as insiders tried to guess the outcome of talks over the possible merger of two icons of the digital revolution. Apple Computer and Sun Microsystems, two vastly different companies, were haggling over the buyout of Apple even as an Apple executive insisted that their company was "not for sale." But it was. Last Tuesday, Sun was said to be offering $33 a share, about the price at which Apple is trading on the stock market, or roughly $4 billion. By Thursday, Sun was reportedly offering $23 a share...
...LEADERS ADDRESSING THEIR troops last Saturday: in Germany Bill Clinton tells the 1st Armored Division, slated for Bosnia duty, "If you are threatened with attack, you may respond immediately and with decisive force." That line receives the loudest whoops and applause of the day. Meanwhile, in Vlasenica, a town 80 km northeast of Sarajevo, General Ratko Mladic, the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new brigade. "We cannot allow our people to come under the rule of butchers," he says. "Those who bombed us have now infiltrated like lambs, saying they want to protect...
Participation requirements were not stringent. "I'm not on the faculty and I have no talent," said Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry, whose dramatic reading of students' dining hall comment cards brought the night's loudest outbursts of laughter...
...Shachar appears to be living in a universe where criticism, rhetoric and fiery distribes are directly linked with shootings, bombings and mass exterminations. The inhabitants of this universe are evidently unthinking, childlike automatons who blindly follow the loudest madman they can find. It is a universe of two-year-olds, where words are direct and magical forces that immediately cause actions...
...race or because of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. As no doubt all members of this community demand, we simply expect that debate, about whatever subject, adhere to standards of intellectual honesty and factual accuracy. It is certainly ironic that those persons who champion the cause of standards the loudest are often the ones who make this expectation the most precarious...