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...Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
...wide acceptance of the term "oriental" is but one example. The behavior of our own Republican Sen. Sam Brownback is another. I used to think Sam was okay for a politician. A few years back, he was running for the House (before Dole left his Senate seat). Brownback was the guest of honor at a small banquet hosted by members of the Taiwanese American community in his district. I was there as I heard him assure everyone that he supported democracy and Taiwan's progressive liberty. Cool, I thought. He was sympathetic...
David developed a navigational guide to search the Web, and soon Jerry found himself keeping track of not only his favorite sites but also David's. They dubbed their growing list "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web." But their part-time hobby quickly grew into a full-time obsession. More and more of their friends wanted to keep up with what was happening on the Web, and by fall the two enthusiasts were surfing the Net day and night. "It was impossible even to sleep," says Yang. Clearly there was a demand for some sort of service that...
...today's hot Internet stocks will wind up winners, of course. Case in point: Netscape Communications, whose Navigator browser was the first commercial software to link computers to the World Wide Web. Netscape stock jumped from $28 a share to $87 when the company went public in 1995, but it sank to just $15 earlier this year. (Netscape closed at $36 last Friday in the wake of rumors that a behemoth like Time Warner might make a bid for the company. Time Warner denied that it planned to do so.) "There's a lot of momentum buying right now," says...
...have a band with a bandstand in the park. The first order was patriotism. Sousa's march Stars and Stripes Forever became (and remains) the most recorded piece of music in history. But the bearded Sousa also infused the classics into every River City he hit in his wide tours with the Marines and later with his own band. Music from Wagner's opera Parsifal was heard in the provinces nine years before it got to New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Grieg marched with the Marines on most of their journeys across dusty prairies...