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...breakdown was the latest in a series of embarrassing mishaps plaguing AT&T, the premier U.S. provider of telecommunications services. Last year a software glitch at a New York City switching center disrupted AT&T's nationwide network for seven hours, and last January a repair crew in Newark shut down service to millions of consumers and businesses when workers accidentally cut a high-capacity fiber-optic phone cable. Last week's misadventure will not enhance AT&T's reputation for reliability and could persuade some customers to farm out more business to the company's rivals MCI and Sprint...
There are some flaws. Rolling Stone magazine's premier essayist has spliced together discrete essays, making the book more a collection of pieces than a unified whole. At times he grows as shrill as those he skewers. Nonetheless, O'Rourke manages to ask all the explosive questions -- Why are taxes so high? Why doesn't government work? How did things get so bad? -- that tap into the deep vein of discontent running through America today. Parliament of Whores may not spark a revolution, but it is one of the few books on civic affairs worth reading from cover to cover...
...earth were Virginia's two premier Democrats squaring off like rival schoolyard bullies? For one thing, Senator Charles Robb and Governor Douglas Wilder had resumed their battle for primacy in the political playground. But in creating what Robb called a "demolition derby," they also damaged their own futures and hurt their party on the eve of state legislative elections. And as leaders with reputations beyond Virginia, they embarrassed their already demoralized national party...
...ordained the Rev. Elizabeth Carl, 44, who is living openly with a lesbian partner. Haines acted despite pressure from the denomination's Presiding Bishop, Edmond Browning, who is sympathetic to the gay cause but wished to avoid the controversy. The action drew a pained comment from the capital's premier Episcopal churchgoer, President George Bush: "Perhaps I'm a little old-fashioned, but I'm not quite ready for that...
Kennedy was still shaken from the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion when he met Khrushchev at the Vienna summit in June 1961. The Soviet Premier ended discussions on nuclear testing and Laos with a stunning demand for a separate German peace treaty, turning over Soviet responsibilities for access to Berlin to East German authorities. Kennedy rightly viewed this as a violation of four-power agreements and warned that any tampering with access would be met with force, including nuclear weapons. Soviet sources judged the President "scared," and Kennedy conceded later that Khrushchev had "just beat hell...