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...wired my home terminal to the Internet (at 300 baud) by shoving my phone receiver into something that looked like twin toilet plungers. I hooked up full-motion desktop videoconferencing and video mail in 1988 and, four years later, started using a pen-based electronic whiteboard and drafting table...
...woman seated on a bench in the corner who were similarly dressed and disguised. As I sat in front of them I noticed an AK-47 leaning just to the left of the first man. Even as my hands shook harder, I took out my notepad and pen to interview the EZLN Commission...
...SAGAN, 69, French author who at age 19 wrote the best-selling 1954 novel Bonjour Tristesse, about seduction and infidelity among the idle rich, after she failed her exams at the Sorbonne in Paris; of heart and lung failure; in Normandy, France. Born Françoise Quoirez, she took her pen name from a character in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. She also wrote 30 lesser known novels as well as short stories, plays and movie screenplays...
...then moving on to the finance post in April - and he has some real achievements to show for it. In 2002, insecurité - fear of rising crime and a sense that illegal immigration was out of control - was on peoples' minds and fueling the surge of Jean-Marie Le Pen's xenophobic National Front. Interior Minister Sarkozy put more cops on the street and introduced monthly performance ratings so people could see the results. He ordered high-profile raids on organized crime gangs, chased prostitutes out of residential areas, and built detention centers for illegal immigrants, accompanying each initiative with...
Most of the time when a nervous college student interviews a celebrity, especially a rather notorious one, the pen-twirling, stammering twenty-something is subjected to a lot of blank stares, subtle glances at the nearest clock and terse, rehearsed responses. My most recent experience, with the famed indie bad-boy writer/director James Toback ’66, was decidedly against the norm. Of course, anyone versed in Toback’s impressive body of work, which includes the recently released con-game drama, When Will I Be Loved, knows that he is, too. Before I could lay down...