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There he met other students, among them a gang of mischief-making teenagers from Brooklyn and the Bronx who called themselves the Masters of Destruction. Although Phiber claims he never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...
...every U.S. telephone network of any consequence was MOD's playground. At first they used their powers for harmless high jinks: looking up the unlisted numbers of celebrities, pestering people they disliked (such as white supremacist Tom Metzgar and former Klansman David Duke) and calling the homes of people they admired (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts). But gradually, they began to trespass on more than just the telephone lines. With Phiber's help, the crew infiltrated the computer networks of TRW, Martin Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members...
...flair, but disciplined. George Bush needed less attention than the others, but Pitts found that a slightly rounder cut helped soften Bush's lean face. When Bush lost the l992 election, Milt was chagrined. There had to be some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton's hair was not short enough and was too pointed on the top. He would have helped Clinton, claiming that "my scissors are neither Republican nor Democrat," but by then he was hopelessly pegged as a Republican journeyman...
They also know, however, that the facts of race don't exhaust anybody's human complexity. And that seems to be the enviable privilege of the new black artists -- today's Post-Mod Squad. In its openness, its variety, its playfulness with forms, its refusal to follow preordained ideological line, its sustained engagements with the black artistic past, today's artistic upwelling is nourished by the black cultural milieu, but isn't confined...
...most radical deviation from Scheme Z, known as 8.1D Mod 5, depresses the artery underground, below the Charles River...