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Gerard, at the time of his death, had been planning to sell Innocent House, the Press' historic home, and his four reluctant partners come under close scrutiny. Frances Peverell, Gerard's discarded mistress and heir to the Peverell name, will permit the sale of the Press only over her dead body--or Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives...
...next week's G-7 meeting in Brussels, Vice President Al Gore unveiled the U.S. proposal for a global info superhighway. The long-awaited U.S. plan forsees a privately-funded, market-driven "Global Information Infrastructure" with uniform security and access policies. Gore will push for telecommunications reforms to permit competition among telephone and cable television companies and open the network to all firms and individuals, regardless of income. TIME technology editor Philip Elmer-Dewitt says it is ironic that Gore wants other nations to deregulate "before we've gotten our house in order." Internet expert David Farber, a University...
After staging a basketball court sit-in that stopped last night's Rutgers game at halftime, students rallied again today, demanding the resignation of university president Francis Lawrence because of a racial comment he made last November. While asking administrators at New Jersey's state university to permit more flexibility on admitting minority students, Lawrence had said that they lack the genetic background to do well on entrance exams. Lawrence apologized after the comments were publicized last week, and insists that the remarks do not reflect his views. There is speculation that people hostile to Lawrence released a tape...
Therefore, it would seem sensible to permit ROTC as a valuable program but to forswear funding it as part of a discriminatory institution...
Their sexual encounter teeters on the brink of both risibility and improbability. It's hard to accept that an experienced man would permit a completely obvious seduction to proceed as far as this one does if it was unwanted; fellatio has begun before he starts emitting virginal squeaks of protest. As the movie develops, we are meant to perceive a causal link between Meredith's sexual voraciousness and her incomprehensible corporate schemings. Eventually they begin to feel like a lot of plotting for plotting's sake, something to do for the second half of what would otherwise have been...