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That's how teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters fed up with the paralysis of Congress and the special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as- usual, the idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of representative democracy and directly influence the government seems enormously attractive...
After years of apparently harmonious marriage, however, rifts began appearing. As the accolades and awards poured in for Stephen, Jane -- competent and intelligent herself -- began to resent living in his shadow. Deeply religious, she was also offended by his apparent atheism. Particularly galling to her was his concept, enunciated first before the Pope at a scientific meeting at the Vatican, that the universe might be completely self- contained, having no boundary or edge, no beginning or end. If that were true, he asked provocatively, "What place, then, for a creator?" Still, friends were shocked in 1990 when Hawking abruptly ended...
...borrow a term from Hollywood, Kathleen Battle's recent albums have been very high-concept. Their glossy appeal can be pitched in fewer than 10 words: Kathleen Battle and ((another famous musician)) perform ((mainstream repertory)). Thus last year Battle teamed up with soprano Jessye Norman in a program of spirituals on Deutsche Grammophon that is still going strong as a crossover best seller. In January Battle released an all-Bach album with + violinist Itzhak Perlman, also on DG; it remains near the top of the classical charts. Now, in the new pairing with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, she has another best...
...book's details of the garden's design laterinspired Mayhugh to paint three detailed areas ofhis concept of the garden. Mayhugh says he wasable to produce a set of paintings which depictthree distinct natural settings...
...Square's colossal central coffee shop. The French words aren't too hard to pronounce, really. But the less ambitious have taken to labeling the cafe "ABP." After all, these are the '90s, and short attention spans and busy lives have reduced rules of pronunciation to a single concept: the simpler, the better...