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...firm, which plans a test in Sunnyvale, California, later this year, Doerr tapped William Randolph Hearst III, grandson of the newspaper baron and a Kleiner Perkins partner. "Today it's too complex to hook up to the Internet to get a rich, full [sound and video] experience," Hearst said in launching @Home last November. He promised that the new system would be lightning fast and easy...
According to Dr. Randolph Catlin, chief of Mental Health at University Health Services (UHS), a person's reaction to the weather will depend on his or her expectations...
Welles was just 25 when he directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in his first film, a veiled biography of newspaper potentate William Randolph Hearst. Yet so controversial was Kane before its release in 1941, and so overwhelming its pressure on Welles' reputation, that it can be seen as the apex of his career, perhaps of Hollywood's Golden Age. It surely makes the man worth one more biography, Simon Callow's Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu (Viking; $29.95), and the film worth a long documentary look, The Battle over Citizen Kane by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein...
...biracial federal jury acquitted Christopher Lynn Johnson, the son of a black activist, of charges that he burned down Alabama's Randolph County High School last year. The school was gutted following the furor that erupted when the school's white principal, Hulond Humphries, unsuccessfully tried to cancel a prom because of interracial dating. The defense suggested that Humphries may have been the real arsonist--an accusation the principal strongly and tearfully denied on the stand...
...such an enigmatic figure," said Epps, who read biographies of both the British head of state and his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, during his leave. "It's an avocation of mine. I have lots of books...