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Such seamless communication is fast winning over everyone from toy retailer FAO Schwarz--which has put a downloadable IM link to customer service on its website--to the U.S. Navy, which uses the Sametime system to connect a 16-ship battle group in the Atlantic Fleet. Closer to home, long-distance provider Sprint uses software designed by Bantu Inc. to enable employees to chat while watching online PowerPoint displays. Messages can also be sent and received by a variety of wireless devices, including cellular phones...
...toss the case, yet her pointed questions to the plaintiff sometimes mimic remarks by its critics--for example, that banks are already lining up behind individual brands. "If the market is going that way anyway, why do you want me to do anything?" she asked U.S. attorney Melvin Schwarz. To prevent a return to duality, he said. That might or might not happen, but as a former card executive puts it, "this is definitely a case where everyone's a little guilty and a little innocent...
...novels seldom attract financial interest from Hollywood, but when they do, as in the case of Peter Benchley's Jaws or Scott Turow's Presumed Innocent, the selling points tend to be strong characters and a plot long on tension and surprises. That's a fair description of Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth (Doubleday; 338 pages; $23.95), which probably explains why, even before its publication, Miramax bought the screen rights for director Wes Craven. Readers should not wait for the film version, though, because this unusually deft and assured first novel conveys a good deal more than thrills and chills...
Some of this evolving story is reflected through Amanda's mind, a smaller portion through Ruth's, and the rest through regular third-person narration. The transitions seem a little jumpy and awkward at first, but Schwarz soon finds a smooth rhythm of backing and forthing, one that forestalls certain disclosures without seeming excessively calculating or coy. As the years pass on the farm and in the small village nearby--the Great Depression in the outside world is manifested here only as collapsing milk prices--the hope arises that maybe there was no dark secret about Mattie's death...
CONVICTED. CHARLES SCHWARZ, 34, THOMAS BRUDER, 33, and THOMAS WIESE, 36, three white police officers; of conspiring to conceal Schwarz's role in the 1997 attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima; in New York City. Schwarz was convicted last year of violating Louima's civil rights by restraining him while another officer sodomized him with a broomstick...