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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mood for compromise. On the night before the meeting, Clinton, recovering from knee surgery, had trouble sleeping--he heard a loud banging above the ceiling of his room. The next day he joked with Yeltsin that the Russians had hired a Finn to jump up and down on the roof...
...rolled in, Oaks' private computer network proved as difficult to reach as the real America Online. Early in the action, his first humvee was taken out by an armored personnel carrier hiding behind a ridge. (The direct hit was indicated by a flashing yellow roof light and a humiliating siren crying Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!) When Oaks transferred operations to a second vehicle, electronic disaster struck. "Every computer I've got has crashed!" he shouted three hours into the battle, and reached for the paper maps, acetate overlays and colored markers that have been the battle-planning tools of U.S. commanders...
...GameWorks creators don't like to think of their gaming spaces as arcades. "It's truly a unique social environment, and that's what's missing from the arcade experience," says GameWorks' president, Michael Montgomery. In other words, parents and kids can pursue separate game paths under one roof and call it family entertainment...
...little industrial-strength over-writing never hurt a thriller about mean streets in the big city, and first novelist Thomas Kelly knows when to break out the purple ink in Payback (Knopf; 273 pages; $23). "Billy peered over the edge of the roof," Kelly writes. "Far below, the life of the city surged through the streets like the blood of a great snarling beast, unimpeded by his concerns. He was just one more fool in its hard history who'd gotten in over his head." Good magenta stuff, requiring only a little Hammond-organ ominoso to sound like the musings...
...click on the car channel, for instance. The program informs you that there are 746 possible cars. Then it starts asking questions: How much do you want to spend? What styles do you like? How much space do you need? How important is power? Safety? Legroom? Air conditioning? Sun roof? Cup holders? Valve configuration...