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This is the lament of the computer addict. Woe be unto all ye hackers who choose Harvard! Beware the flickering terminal! Dread the OIT bureaucracy! Clutch thy IBM to thy bosom...
...security forces, who insist on keeping the country a police state. Although in 1992 Hanoi released the last political prisoners held because of service to the old Saigon regime, thousands of new "enemies" have been discovered. The police may not be able to stop banditry, prostitution or corruption, but woe to anyone openly critical of the government. The regime has even launched a harassment campaign against the relatively benign Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, seeking to force it to merge with the government-approved Vietnam Buddhist Church. Says a Saigon observer: "It seems our leaders think they are still fighting...
...pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs of woe...
...them, prettily illustrated and saying roughly the same thing: it may be an odd marriage, but it works for them. What a difference a year can make. Now there are three new biographies of Diana, all claiming the union is dead, a disaster, a sham. And as usual, woe is what sells. Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story (Simon & Schuster; $22) tops the best-seller lists; Lady Colin Campbell's Diana in Private: The Princess Nobody Knows (St. Martin's Press; $19.95) and Nicholas Davies' Diana: A Princess and Her Troubled Marriage (Birch Lane Press...
Imagine the playground possibilities for ostracism. No longer will dodge ball be the sole determinant of power. Now sugar will separate the strong from the meek: woe to the first-grader who can't stomach a tear Jerker...