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...most damning -- and noteworthy -- critiques are coming from a crop of new books written by people who have spent a few years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place...
...know whereof I speak. On my arrival in this fair city I was already a battle-scarred veteran of the War to Crush Bureacracy. I had to wade through a tide of petty officials just to get a reply card to accept the University's kind offer of admission. In the intervening years, I have been left off more lists than I care to remember...
...Titans would hang their hats in Lynn, Mass. Lynn, Lars said, was another hardworking, football-crazed town in the Macon mold. Lars knew whereof he spoke--his father played for the Lynn Classical High School teams in the '40s and still lives there...
...know whereof I speak, for the simple reason that, as a product of British-style sociological education, I was miseducated in exactly the same way that I see Harvard students--whom I cherish and respect more than any other group of young people--now being miseducated in the Social Studies program. Only more so, since I had to read more texts than they now do, and my tutorials were one-on-one with my exegetical indoctrinators. I, too, had to take the same smattering of anthropology, economics, political science, and history courses, as well as an introductory statistics course which...
Bush, who once served at the U.N. and thus knows whereof he speaks, will argue that Dukakis' faith in international law is naive. There is something quite unnerving, say Dukakis' critics, about the idea of a President who has actually read the Rio Treaty. A more serious argument against multilateralism is that it can degenerate into a de facto isolationism; in a dirty and dangerous world, the U.S. could be paralyzed if it flinched whenever its allies were reticent...