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...maneuvering has already begun. Republican Representatives and Senators tried to steal a march on the White House last week by outlining alternative plans. And the early talk gives promise of a serious debate over substance, conducted in civil tones rather than by an exchange of raucous invective. Such normally fierce partisans as Senators Bob Dole and Ted Kennedy went out of their way to compliment their opponents. Clinton, in an interview with TIME, commended "the sort of spirit that seems to have enveloped the debate. There's a real openness to discussion . . . a sense that...
...Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems, and two special-purpose graphics chips, the Multiplayer is the most powerful video-game system ever marketed to the home. That in itself is no guarantee of anything. Other companies have tried and failed to use sheer power to steal the hearts and minds of the Nintendo generation, and this machine carries the added disadvantage of a price tag seven times as large as that of a Sega or Nintendo. But the industry -- and Wall Street -- is taking 3DO seriously, in large part because the company is backed by some of the biggest players...
Unfortunately for Hawkins and his partners, he is not the only one with his eye on the information-highway prize. Atari has announced a $200 game system called Jaguar that could steal some of 3DO's sparkle this fall. Both Sega and Nintendo are rumored to have 3DO-class machines in development. And last month Nintendo announced plans to leapfrog ahead with a game machine built around a % 64-bit chip, which has twice the power...
...that, she was a straight-A sociology major, who had become a central figure of the Brandeis Strike Information Center, a clearinghouse for information about student strikes all over the country. Professor Richard Onorato, then dean of students, recalls that she had broken into the student-council office to steal stationery to print a political statement. "If that had been all that had happened, it would be something to remember and smile about...
Before the new system was installed, thieves used to steal keys from students to get into dormitories. One of the main advantages of the key card, Fennelly said, is that police can deactivate a lost card without having to replace all the locks in a dorm...