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SATAN certainly landed with a crash. Within minutes of its release, traffic started to pile up on the dozen or so computers around the world that Farmer had authorized as SATAN release sites. "Everyone was grabbing SATAN at once," says John Fisher, a computer-security specialist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of several sites that became overloaded in the crush. Two days after satan was unleashed, tens of thousands of copies had been downloaded...
Hours before Newt Gingrich was to begin his precedent-setting prime time address, President Clinton hit the stump toremind America that the chief executive still has a role in government. "I was not elected president to pile up a stack of vetoes -- I was elected president to change the direction of America," Clinton told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Dallas. He warned that the GOP had better modify its "Contract With America" proposals if they were to become law. So far, he said, he is inclined to support only the line-item veto and a $16 billion spending...
...enough to reel me in, the play attempts to court Harvardians constantly with references and inside jokes only we could possibly appreciate: jabs at the Div School, mentions of the crowd at The Border, a brief flash of Johnston Gate, a grad student crossing the stage buried under a pile of barely discernible blue books. Demons goes out of its way to make us feel savvy...
...pleasant surprise was newcomer SHERYL CROW, 32. Her infectious single All I Wanna Do was named Record of the Year, and she also took home Grammys for Best Female Pop Vocalist and Best New Artist. The oldtimers did pretty well too. Bruce Springsteen, 45, added four awards to his pile for Streets of Philadelphia, and Tony Bennett, 68, picked up two, Album of the Year and Traditional Pop Vocalist, for his MTV Unplugged. They all looked like kids, however, compared with Benny Carter; the legendary saxophonist won for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo...
...membership on the P.R.I.'s executive committee, and has long been accused of shady practices, including diversion of public funds for his own use. There are also suggestions, as yet unproved, that each man knew about the illicit dealings of the other; whoever emerged on top of the postelection pile would be in a position to exploit his information to destroy his rival. When Ruiz Massieu was killed, he was the No. 2 official in the P.R.I. and slated to become party leader in the Chamber of Deputies...