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...Quack medicine comes in two varieties: "irrelevant but harmless" and "toxic." The Administration's plan to wire American classrooms for Internet service is toxic quackery. Four-fifths of U.S. schools have Internet access already; instead of wiring the rest, we ought to lay down a startling new educational directive: First learn reading and writing, history and arithmetic. Then play Frisbee, go fishing or surf the Internet. Lessons first, fun second...
Bowles Stays Put After a yearlong search to replace him, the White House Chief of staff is -- Erskine Bowles. The news keeps restless Clinton staffers in place, but just as soon as the President starts to quack like a lame duck those resumes will be flying out the door...
...write this down and post it on the refrigerator: the next time Alan Greenspan says "duck," I will duck. And I will be plain tickled that he didn't say "quack," because if he had, I'd jump in a puddle and do that too. Greenspan is the powerful chairman of the Federal Reserve, the nation's central bank, but until recently he was looking like the Rodney Dangerfield of the bull market. Three times in three months he implored investors to rethink their love affair with stocks, starting with his "irrational exuberance" speech in December. Yet stock prices danced...
...real entertainment began when baritone Earle Patriarco's Sergeant Belcore took the stage. A classic miles gloriosus, this Belcore had a vapidity no strutting could conceal. Equally but independently ridiculous was bass Dale Travis' Doctor Dulcamara, a hobo-quack who bore an eerie resemblance to the poet Donald Hall. Dulcamara's vendor antics completely undercut his dramatic entrance and resonant "udite" ("listen!"), and his abracadabra, Darkwing Duck gesturings made one laugh out loud. If it hadn't been for the skillful comic acting of these two, the farcical plot would have been in awkward tension with the gorgeous music. Though...
...half a dozen architects of the first Macintosh. The Mac then was a cathedral of computing that made mortals suddenly see the beauty and empowering potential of a desktop machine. It gave new meaning to the word mouse; ordinary people could now make computers do extraordinary stuff, such as quack like a duck. Later, Capps, leading the Newton development team, tried to bring that same humanist spirit to the handheld market. The Newton was the world's first "personal digital assistant" and was supposed to rejuvenate the flagging company. But if the Mac quacked, the Newton gobbled like a turkey...