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...something perversely sick about a person who feels he or she has the right to break into someone else's account, and that perversity is spreading. The notion of privacy of any sort is rapidly diminishing. There are already those in the electronic community working against this rising tide--individuals who write anonymous re-mailer programs, who disseminate easy-to-use cryptography programs. But all this seems equally perverse, the product of some semi-fictional Pynchonian conspiracy theory...
...good that could conceivably have arisen from the ashes of the crematoriums and the bones of those heaped anonymously into mass graves, it was unquestionably the rebirth and independence of the State of Israel. The 600,000 poorly equipped Jewish survivors-turned-soldiers who fought against the tide of 50,000,000 Arabs-ironically for the very same right to exist that had just been denied them by an uncaring, apathetic world community-were again given what amounted to an insignificant amount of assistance in the fight for sovereignty. The subsequent miraculous victory in the 1948 War of Independence will...
...growing protests, St. Martin's Press announced that it had canceled its planned release next month of British historian David Irving's biography Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich. St. Martin's chairman Thomas J. McCormack denied that his house had succumbed to "coercion," which included a swelling tide of unfavorable press stories, criticism from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and, according to some employees, telephoned death threats. Instead, McCormack said, a few of the protesters had prompted him to take a closer look at Irving and his book on Hitler's chief propagandist...
...member AFL-CIO tossed the President an early endorsement and backed it up with a special assessment of union dues to bankroll a blitz of saturation advertising, computer-assisted organizing and massive telemarketing. The enterprise amounts to an all-out war by organized labor to turn back the Republican tide of 1994. John Sweeney, the AFL-CIO's new rabble-rousing president, told TIME that he considers the effort "a matter of life and death...
...couldn't stem the tide forever. In the final 10 minutes of the game, the Harvard defenders became more and more porous as the lead slipped away...