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Upstairs, the digital aristocracy was on parade. IBM, Compaq, the company formerly known as Bell Labs. There was Microsoft in a sprawling "pavilion," surrounded by legions of loyal affiliates. Next door, Sun Microsystems occupied a comparable fortress, flanked by scores of its own Java-fueled, death-to-Microsoft freedom fighters...
...once loyal lieutenant has not skulked away in ignominy. In fact, Paxon's star is rising again, thanks to an aggressive seduction campaign by his fellow House Republicans. As Gingrich has surely noticed, the man who would succeed him has been busy shuttling around the country, raising money for his colleagues and storing away political IOUs for the moment the post-Newt era arrives. Gingrich's loyalists are feigning indifference in public while fuming in private. "Paxon betrayed his own mentor," snipes one. "Is that the kind of leader we want...
Rick Bass drew good reviews in 1992 with The Ninemile Wolves, a moody nonfiction report of a Canadian wolf pack that crossed the U.S. border a few years ago and colonized one of the western states. But Bass's fiction (The Book of Yaak, In the Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...
...vocal they will be. For the most part, Harvard students are criticized for not cheering their teams enough, but that was not the case in the Harvard-North Carolina quarterfinal game of the NCAA women's soccer tournament last Saturday down in Chapel Hill. A loyal contingent of Harvard fans and parents made the trek all the way to Chapel Hill, paid the steep $7 ticket price and loudly voiced their support of the Harvard team...
...Farriss Brothers (a reference to three of the five members), the Aussie band later opted for INXS--much hipper and better suited to Hutchence's hard-driving, sinewy appeal. The hit What You Need was topped by the bravura album Kick in 1987. Hutchence dabbled in film but stayed loyal to the band, which had been preparing for its 20th anniversary tour...