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...gets stranger. In order to send Quittner that mail bomb -- the electronic equivalent of dumping a truckload of garbage on a neighbor's front lawn -- someone, operating by remote control, had broken into computers at IBM, Sprint and a small Internet service provider called the Pipeline, seized command of the machines at the supervisory -- or "root" -- level, and installed a program that fired off E-mail messages every few seconds. Adding intrigue to insult, the message turned out to be a manifesto that railed against "capitalist pig" corporations and accused those companies of turning the Internet into an "overflowing cesspool...
...things that are in the can; horse races, boxing, keno -- they all happen in real time. And in a city where getting 97 cents back for every dollar invested is advertised as a good return, you're going to want willing- suspension-of-disbelief by the truckload. The casino oligarchs figure you will start by believing you saw a hanky transformed into a pigeon, and be on the road to believing it really is your lucky day. If that nut can turn into a white tiger, I should be able to roll another seven, easy. If you don't believe...
...running for President, so he had been planning to take a break. Instead he abruptly decided to rush to Washington last Thursday to fulminate on the Capitol grounds against Bill Clinton's budget. The program was moving through Congress faster than Perot had anticipated, so he personally displayed a truckload of petitions -- bearing 2.5 million signatures by his count -- demanding that Washington cut spending before raising taxes. Minority leader Bob Dole gave Perot's show an unusual plug on the Senate floor. As Dole argued for his own doomed deficit-reduction plan, which contained no tax increases, he said, "Ross...
...tack on 11 penalties, take just 19 shots and line up against a team with fresh legs and a truckload of confidence and the Bulldogs are just chomping at old leather...
Duffus closed the period with 10 saves and a truckload of confidence...