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When I finally reach my wife, I can speak to her through the telephone handset in the normal way. The connection is O.K., except that every once in a while the Net swallows random syllables and even whole words. I guess if you had to make frequent calls to France, say, you could learn to live with it. "Hello, Watson," I say to my wife. "_es," she says, I think. "We need to return those pants," I say. There's a pause. "Not another _air of __ton-_ly __ousers!" she says, I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phone Free | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...nights when it's salsa and Latino it'sbest to go with guys," says Chambron. "They'recouple dances. You could dance with random guysbut they're kind of sketchy...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Into the City | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...average student is most likely to visit Jamaica during spring break when the resort towns are overrun with thousands of college kids desperately seeking insanity. Wet T-shirt and "hot buns" contests, random hook-ups with guys and girls from Chico State University, and a general cloud of psychedelic haziness pervade the whole week. Yet Jamaica has a beauty and culture that offers more than just a sunny location for spring break craziness and beach lounging. Natural wonders speckle the island. Larger features like Dunn's River Falls and the Blue Ridge mountains are breathtaking tourist attractions. Those who take...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: fantasy island | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...overwhelming crowds at the Nuzi exhibit are any gauge (visitors are pretty much guaranteed to have the place to themselves), History will not only fail to pass judgment, but History is probably not going to care. What we leave behind, it turns out, are non-biodegradable objects, a few random legal contracts, a few pieces of jewelry and a whole lot of garbage...

Author: By Dara Horm, | Title: The Monica of Mesopotamia | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...about their mark on History. So are many other people, including many intelligent and ambitious ones. But if we can glean any general truths from the Nuzi exhibit, one might be that on a macrocosmic scale, what people will know of us in the future is more or less random. Our reward will not be in the inscription of our names on credit cards in a museum's glass case a thousand years from now, or in copies of out-of-print books we authored or in the condemnations of the Starr Report. We cannot leave it up to History...

Author: By Dara Horm, | Title: The Monica of Mesopotamia | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

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