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...certain moral passion. (Think Hurricane Andrew as Carl Bernstein.) Meanwhile, Christopher Plummer plays Wallace as a man possessing not only a worldliness that might incline him to compromise with his corporate bosses but also an ample self-regard that would keep him mindful of his reputation--and one whose careful intelligence could well point him in either direction...
...they're running Windows. For reasons known only to itself, Microsoft makes its operating system default to friendly mode, entirely open to network sharing. This means when you hook your brand-new PC up to your brand-new cable modem, you unwittingly become a node on a massive network whose members can come and look around your hard drive, perhaps download your financial records...
What emotions are most likely to incite a reader to write to TIME? Our unscientific survey reveals that those whose opinions have been happily confirmed in our pages are a lot less likely to let us know about it than readers who are "appalled," "infuriated" or "outraged" (the three most popular words in the mad mail...
...LETTER WRITERS ATTACK: Razor-edged vituperation may not add to enlightened discourse, but it has its pleasures--when you're not on the receiving end, at least. Our readers get wrathful at outspoken supporters of controversial politics, such as Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin...
...Miss Ellen," the eminent 89-year-old philanthropist, was the eighth. First was Italian stage actress Eleanora Duse, whose portrait ran on the July 30, 1923, issue. The cover story, a little over one column long (not unusual in those days), noted, "She preferred to make entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor...