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With history as our guide, we can expect that the government will use this event to push through legislation authorizing digital wiretapping without court orders, to outlaw encryption that the government cannot crack and to track the location of cell-phone users without their knowledge. They'll push laws that eliminate individual rights in exchange for more government "protection" against cybercrime...
Because Chatwin knew everyone, and because most of them are still alive, Bruce Chatwin becomes at times a group portrait of an entire world--sophisticated, cutting and articulate--that cannot stop talking, fascinated, about the Cubist harlequin who ran on self-delight. "He was constantly gyrating on his own axis," his patient and devoted wife Elizabeth said, "to cause a sensation, to find a sensation." Another friend noted, "I have seldom met a human being who exudes so much sex appeal with so comparatively little niceness...
Then, in her 40s, Gertrude awakens to the charms of her husband's younger brother, himself more than a decade her senior. Their courtship is protracted and passionate. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet upbraids Gertrude for her infidelity: "You cannot call it love, for at your age/The heyday in the blood is tame." That, Updike's novel suggests, shows how much Hamlet knew...
...Paulo Conde relented and declared that the immorality law would no longer be enforced. "This is going to be the summer of the topless bather," Conde promised, despite grumbles from Brazil's powerful Roman Catholic Church. "The human body is sacred," argued Eugenio Cardinal Sales, Archbishop of Rio. "We cannot expose it for the purpose...
...Freedom can't come from staying here and petitioning this great government," Farrakhan thundered. "Freedom cannot come from no one but the God who can liberate the soul from the burden...