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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...editorial Harrigan wrote that evening, he apologized to his readers: "We'll do a better job with the loss and what this has all meant in next week's paper. Right now it's just too much, and getting the paper out is all we can manage." They managed beautifully. Phillips, who leaves a wife and two young children, was remembered as "one of our all-time favorite troopers, cowlick and all." Lord, who leaves a wife and two boys, was "a great guy with a landmark laugh who was about the most likable guy around." Joos, a husband...
...buggy for bugs and for strange, trusting children. For its first hour--up to and including that airborne kidnapping of our heroine--Mimic is a suavely creepy essay in entomophobia. Then the film gets a severe case of the stupes. The creatures keep Susan alive (inexplicable unless she is meant to be mated with the king bug), and they stop evolving into humans (so we never, alas, see the final stage of a really uggy bug-man). Horror-film heroines are typically doomed to lose their wits halfway through the picture. This time it happened to the director...
...head of Indiana's public-employee union, has seen a lot over the years, but nothing beats the day his auto mechanics came to him and said they didn't want their raises. Indianapolis had just put out to competitive bidding the business of repairing city vehicles, and that meant his workers had to bid against private companies to keep their jobs. Fantauzzo's workers were worried that they would be underbid. So they gave up their pay raises--and narrowly won the contract. The competition has brought a new efficiency to the operation: costs are down 29%, turn-around...
This is the fateful call for the boy titans of the personal-computer revolution, meant to settle the war. At one point, talking about Apple, Jobs says, "There are a lot of good things, happily--and a lot of screwed-up things." Then, to his crew, he yells, "Have we got satellite contact with the other side?" Assured this has been taken care of, he answers a question from Gates about what to wear on the morrow ("I'm just going to wear a white shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank...
...there were cheers too. "Everybody was booing Microsoft," says attendee Mark Lilback, 24, "and then they were like, 'Oh, Bill Gates is listening to this,' and they started to applaud." Who could blame them? They knew the truth: they were a conquered kingdom's starving partisans. Booing Gates meant biting the only hand left with the wherewithal to feed them...