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...sees some hope in the entrepreneurial, and unregulated, wireless-phone industry, in which falling prices threaten to undermine conventional service. "The young crowd comes in sneakers, and doesn't have a lot of paper; all they really have is a good idea," he says. "When a Bell company shows up, they bring 20 pages of documents, 15 lawyers, hold a press conference and complain about the FCC before the TV cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNDT: HOW THE LAWYERS KILLED PHONE COMPETITION | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...subsequent controversy roiled artists, politicians, the A.C.L.U., the courts and editorial writers, who saw in it the clash of titanic forces.The villain in the melodrama was the government. It can haul you before congressional committees and ruin your career, as it did to the Hollywood Ten. It can threaten you with jail time on trumped-up charges, as it did to the Chicago Seven. It can bar you from going to your local high school, as it did to the Little Rock Nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN ERA OF TINY COMMOTIONS | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU is under heavy criticism in Israel for sending Mossad agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME--OR IN AMMAN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Armed with this new definition, it seems to me that there has been more "filler" in The Crimson this year than years past. Though a limited number of such articles or photos can provoke interest, too many can threaten the cohesiveness of the newspaper. I am generally talking about the kind of photo or article that seems not to warrant inclusion in the paper, such as national news that is neither significant nor interesting, or piecemeal entertainment news from faraway cities. I am not, however, referring to campus photos as filler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Filling The Crimson | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...stigma associated with these services must be eliminated. Most importantly, tutors and proctors should be trained to recognize the symptoms and warning signs of depression and other mental illnesses which threaten members of the community. Students should not have to rely on parents and doctors who may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away to come to their aid during a period of life-threatening illness...

Author: By Jeremy R. Jenkins, | Title: Blind Ego | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

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