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...danger to them, as though all those ticky-tack houses and stern, vertical condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...demand. Today media companies dream of using the technology to sell new shows like The Sopranos; tomorrow they could use it to make every TV into an a la carte TV museum. (If they don't, someone else might: already hackers are swapping digitized video files, raising the prospect of Napsterized TV.) The flip side is that we may lose the common experience of having watched a few agreed-on classics: as TV becomes more like books, we may find that access to the complete Keats or the complete Alex P. Keaton doesn't mean everyone will check...
...arrested Dvora Diggs of Dorchester during a traffic stop for driving with a suspended license. Officers stopped Diggs after she allegedly made an illegal left turn from Mass. Ave. onto Prospect Street...
...power by offering them comfortable retirement on the French Riviera. Would Pinochet or Haiti's "Baby Doc" Duvalier have handed over power if all they had to look forward to was court and prison? Unlikely. But advocates of justice-without-borders and geopolitical imperatives counter by asking whether the prospect of trial and punishment might not have restrained their behavior while in power. As complicated as the precedent set by Milosevic's trial may be in the present, its most fervent advocates see it as an investment in the future - by sounding a warning that crimes against humanity will have...
...parent company of TIME, I wanted to see this corporation strike an accord with mighty Microsoft last week. But as a citizen of the global village and all-around guy of the people, I was thrilled when the deal dropped dead. The company stooge in me drooled at the prospect of the two biggest players in Computerville divvying up the market. AOL would get premium distribution and placement in the October release of Windows XP, helping it add gazillions of new users to its rolls. In exchange, Microsoft would not have to worry about AOL's pressing assorted antitrust actions...