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...than vulgarize. Pieces are shorter than before but cut deeper -- especially 'News from Hell,' concerning the events in Sarajevo by new contributor Anna Husarska. Yet tradition has not been entirely scrapped: see Roger Angell's valedictory to Fay Vincent, recently decapitated commissioner of baseball. Miraculously, after a long arid spell the cartoons are funny again -- particularly those by Lee Lorenz, Danny Shanahan and Leo Cullum ('This is my husband, Greg, and Greg's jacket from a previous marriage...
...demand for computerized business data has grown a tame 5%. A subsequent shakeout has already claimed some weaker firms, such as Bunker Ramo, GTE Financial and Pont Systems, through mergers and failures. To remain viable, survivors must invest heavily in the next generation of information technology. That could spell trouble for small outfits like Bloomberg, says Margaret Fischer, head of electronic-information , practices at the market-research firm Link Resources. "The survivors will be those with deep pockets, critical mass and strong stomachs...
...Asija, a Connecticut inventor, attended the conference in order to gauge public reaction to his invention, "Swift-Answer," which is a combined spell checker and grammar checker. The software, designed for "people who make mistakes," converts blatant errors into understandable prose, according to Asija...
...push him over. But the Democrats have two conservative Southern boys running, and they'll take back the South." Vidal is depressed, but his irrepressible humor -- never dormant long -- bubbles to the surface. "Ultimately it's a matter of style. What it comes down to is this: Do you spell Jennifer with a J or a G? That's a class division. As a populist...
...strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn nearly depleted, GM had been losing between $1 million and $2 million a day, which still might doom the company to its eighth consecutive quarter in the red, the longest dry spell in corporate history...