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...until the hacker decided it was DOS Day. The attacks appeared to come from them, not him (attacks from multiple sites are hard to pin down in any case). When the "master" activates his daemons, his hands remain unseen. Technically, "the Amazons and Yahoos were not hacked into," notes Simon Perry of security software firm Computer Associates. But there are "hundreds, thousands of machines out there whose security was compromised and remains compromised." Translation: it can happen again...
Among all the political players, one whose loyalty was always so certain that it gave the public a headache was strategist James Carville. He has just published a book on the subject--Stickin': The Case for Loyalty (Simon & Schuster; $16.95)--which consists of more dialect than thought but is useful as a reminder of both how attractive and impossible loyalty...
...Simon T. Hayes '00 is on top of the world - the senior has several West Coast job offers under his belt and no thesis deadline to worry about. Jacque spends his nights at Grafton in lieu of more trivial pursuits like the Bee formal. Friends of Jacque worry that his ego is spinning totally out of control...
...Gore, the fighter, prefers water skiing. Bradley picked the sugar-free, protein-laden cashew as his snack of choice, while his colleagues admitted to mainlining cupcakes and Three Musketeers bars. Gore, the Harvard-educated, alpha male in training, named Shakespeare in Love as his favorite movie, while Hatch chose Simon Birch, a peculiar film about a dwarf who believes God selected him for a heroic mission. In another life, Hatch says, he would like to be in the CIA. It may be just as well we lost...
...that such a conversation has never been held in the offices of Vogue. But if this is not the stuff of big-time publishing, idiosyncrasy has been a theme of Eggers' career--and it's manifest as well in his unusual forthcoming memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Simon & Schuster; 375 pages; $23), whose playful, reflexive title and prose belie its painful family story...