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...will still be Time, and news will remain our focus, as it has been since 1923. And though we're loath to fiddle with a formula that has worked for decades, we realize that change doesn't have to be bad. Just after we wrote this letter's opening paragraph, we did a quick Internet search. Turns out Canaletto had been dead for eight years when the cornerstone was laid for Somerset House. He had actually painted an earlier Somerset House, no slouch in the aesthetic department but not quite the graceful building that rose on its 16th century ruins...
...George Pachikov, a well-known Russian tech pioneer, has moved the headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...
...presidency of an existing club: I started my own. Figuring the best place to begin cleaning up is your own home, I decided to start a committee to decent-ize my own columns, which might, for example, get rid of "whores" in the middle of the preceding paragraph. And the "watch porn" thing in that same paragraph. And the Cinemax stuff...
...demand fast-forwarding through the comedy specialties by Burns and Allen, Bob Burns, Martha Raye and others too grating to mention). Giddins is attentive and generous to Crosby's films, finding saving graces, vagrant epiphanies or sociological sassiness in each. He is also knowledgeable about the movie milieu, offering paragraph-long portraits of dozens of Bing's coworkers. The book ends with "Road to Singapore," and one avidly awaits his consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby...
...disturbed by a point made in "Nearly Half of Harvard Students Binge Drink" (News, Feb. 5). In a paragraph explaining how much better Harvard students are at dealing with the effects of binge drinking, the article said that "only seven students out of 353 surveyed said they had sex while too drunk to consent...