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...speaks in tones as courtly as those of the English Baroque composer whose anthems he had clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...
SENIOR WRITERS: Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Martha Duffy, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Paul Gray, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Robert Hughes, Richard Lacayo, Eugene Linden, Lance Morrow, Bruce W. Nelan, Jill Smolowe, Richard Zoglin...
Upon sitting down in the conference room at the Charles Hotel for a brief interview with The Crimson, Alek Keshishian '86 tossed a pack of Marlboro Lights on the table with his left hand and inhaled Primatine Mist with his right. He waggishly shook his longish gray-streaked hair, explaining, "This is for my asthma...
Unlike rare jewels, chips have had the advantage of being untraceable, so they can be quickly unloaded on gray and black markets. "Computer components are fast becoming the dope of the '90s because they're so easy to get rid of," says Kerby. In Silicon Valley thieves typically sell batches of chips for 50% of their market value, so the brokers they work with pay about $250 for an Intel 486 chip that might otherwise cost up to $500. The chip may change hands a dozen or more times within 72 hours, with each transaction pushing up the value...
Recent sting operations have slowed the Silicon Valley heists a bit but have shown few signs of stopping them. In campaigns with code names such as "Operation Gray Chip" and "Winter Sting," law-enforcement officers rounded up 43 suspects in January, including 13 who were caught while trying to steal more than $1 million worth of computer parts from an electronics warehouse. Officers seized a total of $2 million worth of chips and other computer equipment, together with nylon masks, duct tape, ropes, gloves, walkie-talkies and five loaded guns. But while 20 suspects were swiftly tried and convicted, most...