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...harshest of these attacks are true, SoftRAM 95 isn't just one more computer product that fails to live up to its hype; it's a hollow piece of Potemkin programming, devoid of the advanced, patent-pending compression technology touted in its packaging. In short, says Mark Russinovich, a University of Oregon computer scientist, "the thing is a fraud...
...keep Chechnyan territory. Will Yeltsin have a change of heart? There has been no indication yet, butTIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovichsays "the government wants to create a good mood for the Clinton visit," but their actions so far seem to add up to little more than a modern day "Potemkin Village...
...nothing in this Potemkin village is as it seems. Las Lisas traffics not in local cuisine or local color but in a dream--the dream of traveling to America. The food hut is actually a check-in station for refugees and their machete-strapped buscones (guides). The men under the nut tree are lookouts, who meet groups of would-be immigrants arriving from Santo Domingo and direct them to hiding places in safe houses and the surrounding jungle. Makeshift boats--weighted down by rocks and submerged in the stream near town--are waiting to take the travelers...
...will never be easy to talk, or deal, with North Korea, an almost cultish hall of mirrors ruled by a neophyte whose only qualification for power is his patrimony. Cuba, to be sure, has many Potemkin surfaces, plus all the brutality of a police state, but its people are worldly enough at least to know how much salt to sprinkle on their slogans, and its leader, up against his ninth American President, is canny enough to adapt a little to the times. While Cuban official billboards occasionally note how "Pride" in the Revolution has led to "Upset" and "Disenchantment," North...
Time Warner's frustrations may be greater because its ambitions are higher. Its Orlando project was designed to be a fully functional model of a system that could eventually be rolled out across the country. So-called market trials, by contrast, are often little more than electronic Potemkin villages patched together on a personal computer or run from a back room by people doing the work by hand...