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...company's first product, Microsoft Basic) but also meets regularly with the ceos of all the major hardware and software firms. This enables him to spot trends and anticipate developments as clearly as anyone in the industry. It is as if he were playing three-dimensional tic-tac-toe in a world where everyone else is playing...
...TOE-TAPPING BANDS...
...your item "Band-Aid, Pentagon-Style" [CHRONICLES, May 8], you state that it will "cost even more to entertain the troops with precise renditions of The Stars and Stripes Forever!" This incorrectly implies that the service bands merely provide "entertainment" for toe-tapping service personnel or other casual listeners. Military bands include some of the finest professional musicians in the world. As a music educator, I look to these exemplary performing ensembles as a model both aesthetic and professional for my students. The days are long past when the bands played only John Philip Sousa marches as troops passed...
Koocher, however, says Thompson has had to toe Flaherty's line because of political realities. "Even if the most strident of political liberals were elected, you know damn well they'd be sucking up to Charles Flaherty, because he's the speaker," Koocher says. "You don't want the district to suffer because you're not supporting the leadership...
...problem is that UMass scored 19 seconds later. Glass converted a tic-tac-toe-like passing display after the face-off and beat Lyng with six seconds remaining...