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...California freeway from Mountain View to Cupertino was jammed late Tuesday afternoon. Netscape's entire work force was traveling as if in procession to a nearby college auditorium--one big enough to accommodate all 1,200 for what would be the saddest-ever of Netscape's legendary "all-hands" meetings. The rumors had become official: America Online was buying their feisty company. As you might imagine, none of the people there greeted this as good news. "Netscape is dead," an employee said bitterly. "This was the funeral...
When my daughter told me she was a lesbian, the saddest part was that I was (and am) constantly worried that others will hurt her because of who she is. And I am extremely saddened by the thought that someone would not get to know and love my daughter just because she is a lesbian. Because, you see, my daughter is a beautiful person, inside...
...mayor as a crack smoker (well, O.K., pick another drug). But by the mid-'90s, the roofs on many city schools were caving in. Thousands of people were dying of AIDS, but management was so abysmal that millions in federal AIDS dollars sat unspent. At perhaps the city's saddest, most surreal moment, morgue officials said they didn't have enough money to refrigerate the dead. Outraged residents--even some hard-core Barryites--began to demand change. Finally, Congress and the White House stepped in, and over the next few months most of the powers of the mayor, city council...
...audience. If you are a movie comedian who is graduating to more substantial roles but is still most famous for having made teenage boys laugh by pretending to talk with your buttocks, this is an allegory to which you can surely relate. "To me, it's the saddest thing in the world to see a comedian at 60 doing the same character and the same act," says Jim Carrey, 36. His odd, moving performance in The Truman Show, an odd, moving film, should ensure that 24 years from now he will have more career opportunities than, say, Jeff Foxworthy...
...everyone in this story is a little deluded. And the saddest part--the part Bipin and Ellen and, yes, Faye all have to answer for--is that the victims of those delusions, somewhere on the run with their mother, are those two little girls, who never asked for any of this...