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...little from Brutes." Early this year, English journalist Auberon Waugh, who seems to have inherited his father Evelyn's racism if not his genius, visited Sydney for the Australian bicentennial. "They had no form of civil society at all, beyond whatever social organization may be observed in a swarm of locusts," he wrote of the Aborigines. Their art "must be judged the merest piffle by civilized standards...
...these debates, reporters inevitably swarm around the spokesmen for both campaigns to hear them say what they're paid to say--that their man won. The need for reporters and camera crews to convey the obviously highly partisan opinions of these campaign strategists to millions of Americans is dubious...
...Pakistani virus is only one of a swarm of infectious programs that have descended on U.S. computer users this year. In the past nine months, an estimated 250,000 computers, from the smallest laptop machines to the most powerful workstations, have been hit with similar contagions. Nobody knows how far the rogue programs have spread, and the exact mechanism by which they select their innocent victims -- resting harmlessly in some computers and striking destructively in others -- is still a mystery...
...that live behind veils and screens; the city wears its emotions on its streets. Everywhere one is grabbed by shoves and shouts and smells and smiles. Here is a city that does not stand -- or even sit -- on ceremony. The area around the stately old South Gate is a swarm of vendors. Ask a girl for Chanel, and she will produce an elegant package for $100. Protest the price, and she will instantly draw out another box: Shanel -- for less than...
...competitions to the most intriguing bits of lore and trivia. -- Heptathlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Decathlete Daley Thompson are coming to assert a kind of athletic kingship. -- Swimmers Biondi and Janet Evans have appointments in Korea with a hoard of medals -- the question being just how many. -- For a swarm of mitey gymnasts, the contest beyond gold seems to be for the affection of the globe. -- The first superpower showdown in twelve years. -- A look into the heart of Seoul. -- And finally, for the overwhelmed viewer, a selective TV guide...