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...special scorn management guru Tom Peters, who teaches disciples to think of themselves as commercial, brand-named products; the cyber- magazines Wired and Fast Company, which promote, in Purdy's view, greed and self-absorption; and Jerry Seinfeld, whom Purdy calls, in a tone once reserved for Satan and serial killers, "irony incarnate...
...newspapers and dictionaries--are still on paper. To help convert the printed word into digital form for reports or homework, C Technologies and Siemens have developed digital highlighters. Simply swipe them across a line of text, and they will store data for transfer to your PC, via infrared or serial port. Both Siemens' PocketReader and C Technologies' C Pen 200 cost $200. FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE Step into the lush, futuristic world of Final Fantasy VIII, the latest installment of the blockbuster PlayStation series that has sold some 22 million copies worldwide. Gorgeous scenery with cinematic touches and realistic-looking...
Witnesses have put Swango at the bedside of some victims moments before they died. Colleagues report his fascination with violence and the serial killers Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. Stocks of poisons and hypodermic needles were found in Swango's living quarters. Yet the best the law could do was convict him of falsifying a job application and sentence him to 42 months in a federal prison. He is scheduled for release in July...
...been convicted of a single murder. This pesky legality results in some narrative discordance. For 300 pages, Blind Eye has Swango killing people right and left. Yet Stewart's conclusion contains a flurry of qualifying statements like "Swango is the first alleged serial killer in this century to have emerged in the guise of a physician." However inconvenient, writers have to obey libel laws; too many lawyers are watching. But where were the language police when Stewart chose the word guise? It means semblance, and if we know anything for sure, it is that Swango did not resemble a doctor...
Before Washington journalism turned into blood sport and politics turned into an exercise in serial lying, there was a fairly firm understanding by the press that personal failings were none of the public's business unless misbehavior affected the performance of public duties. Because there was so little competition, the press barons could enforce those rules. No more...