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Indeed, before the G.O.P. House members start imagining how history will treat their sprint through the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, they had better get some rest. For it will be the next 100 days and the 100 after those that will determine the real measure of their success at turning America toward a new course. "We are going to get to a balanced budget in seven years," Gingrich told TIME last week. "It will be so large, so comprehensive and so daring that I don't think anybody is going to say this is business as usual...
...certainly nothing that could be called character development. Ah, but character disintegration, character vaporized and sucked away by the office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal Resolution Trust bonds back to the very failed savings and loans into which the government is trying to pump life-giving formaldehyde...
...heat went out much slower than I thought it was going to," said Goetze, who is the first Harvard athlete to earn indoor track All-America since 1990. "I assumed it was going to be a fast pace. I knew it was going to be a sprint at the end when I heard the 400 split was 64 seconds...
...single company has the resources to build, program and operate anything as complex as an information highway. There are about half a dozen such confederations. In addition to the Time Warner/U S West/Silicon Graphics partnership, cable giants TCI, Cox and Comcast have joined forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications) are teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies...
...gets stranger. In order to send Quittner that mail bomb -- the electronic equivalent of dumping a truckload of garbage on a neighbor's front lawn -- someone, operating by remote control, had broken into computers at IBM, Sprint and a small Internet service provider called the Pipeline, seized command of the machines at the supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool...