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...that nothing served that evening suits your tastes. You could make yourself some sort of extensive salad-bar concoction, or bake yourself a tuna melt in the microwave or go out for dinner instead. But those options require more time, more money, more ingenuity--and the dining hall's shake'n'bake chicken is sitting right there waiting for you. It's as initially inefficient to make your own food as it is to learn to type on Dvorak. As long as you don't care too much about what you eat, the path of least resistance is the obvious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Join the Circus, Type Dvorak and Go Free | 11/12/1998 | See Source »

Though he seems every inch a disciplinarian, Primakov has not yet been able to shake the new government into shape. Ministers contradict one another in public. They unnerve the markets and the IMF with widely varying figures for the amount of new money that will have to be printed to keep the economy afloat. Primakov, meanwhile, has struck some visitors as strangely removed from the day-to-day business of government. A senior diplomat recalled a recent high-level meeting with the new Prime Minister. "We asked about foreign policy," the diplomat said, "and Primakov waved his hand and referred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's New Icon | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...memo written by Intel VP Steven McGeady, the government?s latest witness, in which "Gates made vague threats of support for other platforms," and you have allegations strikingly similar to those leveled by Apple and Netscape. Whatever the final outcome, Redmond will find it hard to shake the mafiosi image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bill Gates Show, Part II | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid rapport with Woods and brings a rugged toughness to Montoya, but he can't shake his comical "Baldwin brother" reputation (he's the portly one) and brings utterly no credence to his silly romantic subplot with Sheryl Lee's Katrina...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...Bush brothers in Texas and Florida indicate that the moderate wing of the Republican Party, and not the reactionary wing, has a future. The Democratic resurgence in the South, marked by the capture of two Senate seats and two governorships (in Georgia and South Carolina), is a welcome shake-up to the country's regional political divide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A National Cleansing | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

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