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...Sarah, Plain And Simple...
...readers don't seem to care. "History is a funny thing for cyberpunks," says Christopher Meyer, a music-synthesizer designer from Calabasas, California, writing on the WELL. "It's all data. It all takes up the same amount of space on disk, and a lot of it is just plain noise...
...second round of hearings opened Thursday, it was plain that Baird was a woman without a constituency. She had no track record with women's groups, Washington insiders or public-interest groups. Not even professional women with children rushed to her defense...
...Clinton was equal to the occasion. His speech was, for him, stunningly brief: 14 minutes. It contained fewer memorable lines than some previous Inaugurals, and its occasional attempts at poetry ("In the depth of winter . . . we force the spring") seemed mildly strained. But in concentrated form and effective, though plain, language, the President defined all the major themes of his Administration -- above all, change. Generational change: the 46-year-old Clinton paid a graceful tribute to the generation of his 68-year- old predecessor and summoned his fellow baby boomers less to take over than to assume "new responsibilities." Change...
...Huskies. We're the Crimson. This one isn't even close. What kind of nickname is a color? Imagine: the Boston Green (Celtics), the Boston Black (Bruins), or the New England Red, White and Blue. Absurd. Some say it's simple and classy. I say it's plain and boring. Nickname, minus two Harvard...