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...from CompuServe and other computer networks (a $15 contribution for the programmer is encouraged). SoundMaster can instruct a computer to cough whenever the machine requests a floppy disk, burp when it ejects a disk or bark when it launches a program. Soon after it was released, a lively trade sprang up at user-group meetings for bootleg sounds tape-recorded from the TV and digitized in home computers, from Bart Simpson saying, "Thanks, man" to Porky Pig stuttering, "That's all, folks...
...hatred seems ironic in a people steeped in the unifying belief that they are all descended from one man: the mythical founder Samaale. From him sprang a vast genealogical tree of clans that form the basis of the social system. Somalis still pride themselves on their ability to recite their clan histories for generations back. But a divisiveness has infected them since ancient times, when rival groups laid claim to the same wells and grazing lands...
Instead of realizing that he benefited from the climate of corporate turmoil that was due to the policies (or lack thereof) of the government, he is eating the pumpkin and killing the horses out of spite for the society from which they sprang. There is, however, one key difference lost in transition to the modern world: Cinderella always believed in a better...
...MOST EAST ASIANS, CHINA IS THEIR GREECE AND Rome: the great fount from which their civilizations sprang. Today, as China struggles to find new directions with the help of neighbors, it still expects its due in homages -- even though two recent visits to Beijing showed how hard it remains to reconcile the past and present. Emperor Akihito, the first Japanese sovereign ever to set foot in the Middle Kingdom, was constrained by domestic politics to stop short of apologizing for Imperial Japan's brutal 1931-45 occupation of much of China. Many Chinese still painfully recall the period's atrocities...
...disadvantage because he was a product of public schools while Gore had mainly attended private schools. If the remark was intended to paint Quayle as a man of the people and his rival as a privileged elitist, it was disingenuous to say the least: both men sprang from well-known, well- heeled and politically active families. On his father's side, Quayle's family ran the Chicago Dowel Co., which produced Lincoln Logs. The Vice President's maternal grandfather, Eugene C. Pulliam, was a prosperous conservative publisher of newspapers in Arizona and Indiana. Gore's father, Al Gore...