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Windows 95 has not only caught up with Macintosh but in some areas even outshines it. For example, to select a command from one of the Mac's "pull-down" menus requires users to press the mouse button, hold it down while dragging the cursor over the command and then release the button. It is an awkward sequence that new users find difficult to master and that can put a strain on the wrist. In Windows 95, the menus pop open with just one click and stay open until a second click launches a command...
...doesn't work. If you own a computer, I'm sure this admission doesn't surprise you. This morning, for instance, I powered up my new, $3,000 machine, hoping to check my E-mail. I launched (an optimistic verb) a communications program, and double-clicked an on-screen button...
Reviving a hot-button issue from the 1988 presidential election, Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-N.Y.) testified at a House subcommittee hearing that "Eighty percent of the American people" want a constitutional amendment banning flag desecration. Solomon, chief sponsor of such a bill, which the House is expected to take up next month, says flag burning is not speech or expression but "a hateful tantrum," and should not be protected. Opponents of the bill say it would infringe on free-speech rights and amounts to "constitutional desecration." Supporters say the measure already has 272 of the 290 votes it needs...
...Reed made his rounds among America's most important politicians last week, he looked for all the world like a junior executive, neatly attired in a crisp, dark suit and starched button-down shirt, dashing, luggage in hand, from taxicab to commercial aircraft. At times, he thumbed through his history book of the moment, Doris Kearns Goodwin's new biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But there was nothing mundane-or junior level-about his encounters. In addition to New Hampshire's Governor, he met with Senator Dan Coats to discuss the Foster nomination and a new bill on school...
...Russians are back! the Russians are back! writers of international thrillers, on page or screen, must have whooped for joy when Vladimir Zhirinovsky began spouting his virulent nationalism. What if this character got his finger on the nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have...