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...Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper publisher, and AT&T, the leading provider of long-distance telephone service, last week named new chief executive officers. The change in command at Ma Bell had been anticipated, but the timing of the Gannett switch came as a surprise...
...increase the company's most recent proposed long-distance rate cut to an average of 11.8%, by far the largest in its 101-year history. If approved, the new charges would take effect on June 1. AT&T's new boss, like its old one, clearly wants to keep Ma Bell's lock on the lucrative long-distance market...
Digital gives you "just the facts, ma'am." And digested. Digital arbitrarily cuts up the continuum of information into bite-size bits, selects pieces and presents them back glued together to simulate the original continuum. That makes for efficiency. Because numbers can be instantly checked for errors and instantly re-sent, digital information can be transmitted over vast distances and through imperfect media without distortion. It arrives intact at the other end, ready to be turned back into a whole. But not quite the whole...
...have visited a Jewish house of worship. Initiated by a personal request from the Pontiff, the carefully planned event included mutual declarations of respect by the Pope (who twice used Hebrew phrases) and the Chief Rabbi, Bible readings, hymns and the rendition by a cantor and choir of Ani Ma'amin, a traditional profession of faith sung by Jews as they were led to the gas chambers. Because of the congregation's Orthodox Jewish sensibilities, there was no joint worship...
Demonstrators outside the buildings held banners, wore cardboard gravestones of people killed by the Contras, and carried signs with facts about Nicaragua. A banner hanging from a nearby rooftop read: "Help Wanted--terrorists, torturers, rapists, murderers for Contra army. Apply at Central Intelligence Agency, 30 Winter St, Boston, MA...