Word: mirrored
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...great American biographies. Rockefeller may linger in the national memory as a fading capitalist icon, a moral double exposure from long ago, but his story (and that of Standard Oil and the great trust-busting struggles at the turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against Microsoft and Bill Gates--the man who, with $48 billion, has surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American ever. Even the tabloid atmospherics of today savor eerily of Hearst and Pulitzer 100 years...
...kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded. U.S. intelligence officials suspected there had been fewer. But on Saturday Pakistan conducted one more test at a nearby site to mirror India's back-to-back blasts. In an exclusive interview with TIME, Sharif said these tests would be the last "for the foreseeable future." Asked about Pakistan's actions, Sharif responded, "We were compelled to make a test. As a human being, I can tell you it was a painful decision...
Then Brown looked in the mirror, and what he saw changed his approach to life...
DIED. LORD CUDLIPP, 84, sire of the modern British tabloid who ruled his Fleet Street subjects with a tart tongue and irreverent wit; in Chichester, England. A reporter at age 14 and an editor at 24, he later took charge of the Daily Mirror and shocked its sleepy circulation--and sober content--with bold headlines, pro-Labour positions (dubbing Britain "too damn smug"), prurience (he ran the first photo of a topless beauty) and pluck...
Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale. His 1991 book, Mirror Worlds, predicted something like today...