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...those folks who seem to relish the story of security agents and protective apparatus as much as what Presidents and Prime Ministers do and say. No more yarns about "the sinister black briefcase" carrying nuclear codes, or the "android image" of the Secret Service, or how agents switch revolver style when they change clothes from casual (Smith & Wesson Model 10) to formal (Walther PPK), or the press "baying for names and quotes." Unfortunately, the prose that would result would be far more prosaic. The sense of pomp and ceremony and history would be sacrificed. But by taking refuge...
They now pay 45%, and when the equal-access switch is complete, all long-distance companies will pay the same rate...
...squad out informally as he coached the men's spring club team in past years, gave the aquawomen some of the basic in struction they needed. Almost all of the player, who are current or ex-swimmers trying the sport out for the first time in college--made the switch from competitive swimming...
...earlier contended that he never compromised the Journal's news columns by deliberately planting stories, he admitted to investigators that he twice wrote favorable columns at Brant's request on companies in which Brant and his clients held stock: Chicago Milwaukee, a railroad holding company, and Digital Switch, a telecommunications manufacturer. Said Winans, who was fired from the Journal after the SEC began its investigation in March: "There is much in my conduct during the last months at the Journal which was wrong ... I stand in judgment of myself as having violated fundamental tenets of my profession...
...Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term for Seurat's technique), that puts on a sound-and-light show at the flick of a switch. Soon he will fall through a visionary's looking glass into the past, to find art merging with dreams on an ordinary Sunday on La Grande Jatte...