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...said that mortal enemies, in time, come to resemble each other. Perhaps that explains how Hillary Clinton, a staff lawyer on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, is sounding a tiny bit like Tricky Dick himself. As she sought to defend her beleaguered husband last week, Mrs. Clinton charged that accusations against him, of adultery and perjury, are the invention of a "vast right-wing conspiracy" determined to undo the results of the past two elections. What's more, the alleged conspirators--a multitalented cabal including not only Kenneth Starr and Paula Jones but also Senators, judges, publishers, Internet gossips...
Each of us has our own concentric circles of roommates, friends, acquaintances and mortal enemies. But lurking around the periphery of people we know, we all have our own distinct set of people who we've never actually spoken to, but who have obviously signed contracts to act as "extras" in our lives. These people come in two types: the 2-D people and the 3-D people...
Faster than you can say Mortal Kombat 2, I hopped over to this store downtown that feeds a growing underground market for the $65 chip that enables a U.S. PlayStation to run Japanese video games. It's illegal, of course. Totally voids the warranty too. But that's where I saw my opening. I figured the unexported stuff had to be educational, if only from a cultural standpoint. I've lived in Japan and can easily imagine the overly protective Sony-Japan marketers holding back all kinds of cool stuff, wrongly assuming that Americans just wouldn't understand it. Like...
...dances with the single-minded intensity of the divine. On her head she balances a solid granite boulder, symbol of her mortal burdens. Round and round in syncopated steps, her open palms fluttering up and down in tireless supplication, she strives toward ecstasy. On and on she circles to the soft crooning of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam," bending and rising in private communion; the heavy stone never wavers. Suddenly she halts and smiles with such sweetness that the Virgin must surely have answered her prayer...
...streets will run with clones and genius oligarchy of the rich will prevail. Barring that, people will balk at, yet secretly desire, the ability to control serendipitous mediocrity or excellence in their offspring. Also in the future: it will somehow be profitable and useful to graft our deepest mortal enemy's genes onto human ones, so as to further the self-destruction of the human soul...