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Dingell's criticism is particularly searing in view of his liberal credentials and the fact that he was chairman of the committee when a promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would...
...Burton (Batman) and David Fincher (Alien 3) were among the directors at one time considered to update Godzilla. When Steven Spielberg, who knows from dinosaurs, heard that Devlin and Emmerich were contemplating the movie, he tried to talk them out of it and called the remake a silly concept. Emmerich, who was to direct the film, responded with a smile, "I don't know. Big Lizard eats Big Apple. I like...
Stone takes his time putting all the elements of an enormously complicated plot into place. Much religious arcana are offered: "How the Kabbalistic doctrine of ayin, the unknowable element in which the Infinite exists, had its Hindu cognate in the concept Nishkala Shiva, the remote absolute." Reading the first half of Damascus Gate can, at such moments, feel like a long uphill trek...
...gives 5 miles for every $1 spent with phone company MCI. United Airlines even gives you a housewarming gift: 1,000 miles for every $10,000 borrowed through specified mortgage brokers. "I can get miles by using my Bell Atlantic cell phone and making calls using MCI. What a concept!" says Ira Birns, 35, assistant treasurer with Arrow Electronics in Melville, N.Y. Birns has about 800,000 miles through his memberships in the AAdvantage and Marriott Rewards frequent-traveler programs...
Financial risk is a laughable concept to those of us who have no assets to risk. What most Americans truly need is credit-card rates that reflect today's realities. I'd be happy to pay a small fee to a big company that could search the world for cheaper auto insurance and a less costly car loan. A true genius will make the most of the negative net worth of consumers and provide cheaper services. OMAR BARRAZA Seattle...