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...they tried to use the online service. Trouble is, the customers have to phone in for the refunds. And guess what they?re hearing? Busy signals. Apparently AOL did not provide enough phone lines to handle the avalanche of customer calls for refunds. After navigating through a three-minute maze of menu options, callers Friday invariably hit a dead end with a recorded message to "call again later." Customer service representatives suggested that subscribers put their refund request in writing instead -- but an AOL spokesperson said that writing in would get customers nowhere. Noting that the settlement with several state...
...this ancient city, dusty and undeveloped but holy to all faiths, is steeped in bloodshed and tension, a tangled maze of roadblocks, cement barricades and metal spikes manned by hundreds of Israeli soldiers to keep militant Jews and militant Palestinians apart. Both sides have grown hard as Palestinians stab and stone the settlers and Jews shoot and vandalize their neighbors in regular tit-for-tat violence...
...want to create games that are totally socialization-based," says Moses Ma, CEO of the San Francisco-based software developer Velocity. He offers as an example a door in a maze that can't be opened unless four people do it at the same time. Ma, who hopes to release his first online 3-D MUDS early next year, says gamemakers and MUD designers are trying to do two very different things: "The game designers come in and say, 'I want to make a game.' The mud designers say, 'I want to manage the ecology of an environment.'" Designers John...
...ride to the museum was a journey in itself, since I had never ventured past South Station on the Red Line T. Emerging from the subterranean maze into open space and ocean-blanched light provided a pleasant change from the cluttered streets near Downtown Crossing...
From these starting points, the two men began inverse journeys. Dole wound through an intricate maze of largely self-inflicted wounds before suffering a humbling defeat; Clinton sensed the national mood, embraced it rigorously and was rewarded with a startling victory. How Clinton came back, how he co-opted the G.O.P.'s most popular prescriptions and repositioned himself as the sensible center's poster child, will be studied (and copied) for decades. Dole's effort will be remembered too--as a case study in how not to run for President. Clinton's stunning reinvention as the people's choice...