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...painter who numbered Edward's mother among his many mistresses. He does not know exactly how Jesse can help him, but he feels irresistibly drawn, by a magic he claims not to believe, toward "the longed-for father, the healer, the hero-priest, the benevolent all-powerful king." No sooner does Edward conceive this idea than he receives an invitation from Jesse's wife to visit Seegard, the artist's house near a deserted stretch of English seacoast. He arrives to find himself welcomed by the wife and two beautiful daughters, who look "like three young mediaeval princesses." They introduce...
...Reagan, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan have turned the argument around, invoking the specter of G.I.s in the jungle as something that no one wants to see but that might be required down the road if the Congress defies the President now. Sooner or later, they say, someone has to do to the Sandinistas what they did to the Somocistas--drive them out of Managua--and if the contras can't, the job may fall to the 82nd Airborne...
...that both the aircraft and its crew had long associations with the CIA, some Congressmen grew dubious about Administration professions of ignorance. Said Minnesota Republican David Durenberger, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "I assume somebody in the United States Government knows something about this, and the sooner they speak up the better." Hasenfus' capture came only a week before final passage of $100 million in military and economic aid for the contras is slated by Congress...
...biggest makers of personal-computer software seem to be giving up. In August Lotus began selling disks that enable corporate customers to strip protection from its best-selling 1-2-3 program. Ashton-Tate quickly followed suit, abandoning copy protection for all its products. Said Chairman Edward Esber: "Sooner or later, you've got to trust your customer." Last week Microsoft announced that it is "going bare" on the last of its business programs, leaving protection only on its popular Flight Simulator game...
...sooner would a copy-protection scheme come to market than some hacker would find a way to defeat it. At the height of the video-game craze in the early 1980s, youthful pirates raced one another to be the first to make a working copy of each new game disk. In one remarkable coup, a freebooter calling himself Bozo NYC posted instructions on a computer bulletin board for pirating Sirius Software's Phantoms Five two weeks before the game appeared in stores. Even Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak got into the act, writing, for private consumption, a "liberator" program...