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Individuals' papers and effects today can be scattered far beyond their physical persons and homes. The U.S. Government alone maintains some 3 billion personal computer files, a treasure trove through which an army of bureaucrats can search and snoop. Even more extensive are the records maintained by local governments, private credit agencies, banks, insurance companies, schools and hospitals. It is hard to live in modern society without leaving a long, broad electronic trail. Computers record where you reside and work, how much money you make, the names of your children, your medical and psychiatric history, your creditworthiness and indebtedness, your...
...documents represent only a fraction of the 1.5 million-page trove sequestered by Congress during the Watergate probe. Further releases are expected, but Nixon and his former associates are still challenging disclosure of some of the remaining material...
That is what Historian Stephen E. Ambrose has done in Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913-1962. His unauthorized but authoritative biography does not offer a trove of new information; instead it examines evenhandedly the voluminous record amassed by Nixon and his friends and enemies. This Nixon is neither hagiography nor hatchet job but something better: a balanced, thorough account of an engrossing story...
...Libya invaded its neighbor in force. The exuberant Chadians claimed they had killed 1,269 enemy troops and taken 438 prisoners while losing just 29 soldiers. Chadian officials also said that in the hasty retreat last week from the air base at Ouadi-Doum, the Libyans left behind a trove of Soviet-made equipment, including combat aircraft, tanks and rocket launchers. The defeat, stated a Chadian military communique, enabled government forces a few days later to seize Faya-Largeau, Gaddafi's last major stronghold in Chad. Even before that final blow, some 3,000 Libyans, fighting despondency and a violent...
...American musical theater had other reasons to cheer when Soprano Erie Mills sang Naughty Baby, from the 1924 Gershwin show Primrose. The number, with its infectious syncopation and George's own nimble charts, was receiving its first public performance in six decades. It is part of a trove of music by Broadway's old masters -- Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter -- discovered in 80 boxes in a Secaucus, N.J., warehouse. Now, after five years of archaeology, Historian Robert Kimball has prepared a 178-page inventory of some of the contents for the first volume of the Catalog...