Word: holing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broke," claimed entertainment mogul David Geffen, who joined the Spielbergs, Hankses and Streisands in giving the maximum $10,000 contribution. "I would have given more, but they didn't want any more," added Geffen. That's not entirely true -- the Clintons have a $10 million legal hole to fill -- but given that the limit was previously $1,000, Geffen is lucky to be writing checks this large. If he has cash to spare, he might give a thought to Monica: The former White House intern has only received $10,000 total for her substantial legal costs...
...some traceless way, through some unfindable hole in time, childhood vanishes. That's the haunting, unstated theme of this extraordinarily good first novel. The title is a child's way of saying "odyssey," and the voyage at the novel's core is that of 13-year-old Philip Shumway. One ordinary summer afternoon, Ethan, Philip's much loved elder brother, walks away from their house and is never seen again. The Shumways--Philip, three sisters and their parents--track him separately into obsession. Philip's childhood is burned away, cauterized, by the loss, and the half-formed man whose personality...
...doctor from Manchuria's infamous 731 medical unit. "I felt very conflicted," Cooper recalls when he first met with Chu-Ki-Nren in Tokyo. "Imagine sitting across the table from JOSEPH MENGELE." Still, he decided to help because "young people in Japan live in a historical black hole...
...Microsoft scrambled to cover up the code hole by posting a software patch on its web site Monday; trouble is, it didn't fix the problem. A working patch is expected from both Microsoft and Netscape soon. Advises TIME tech columnist Joshua Quittner, "If you use one of the affected mail programs, you have two choices: Stop using email, or get another program." Qualcomm, makers of Eudora, claim their software is unaffected. Word to the terrified: No such e-mail attack has been confirmed...
...felt very conflicted," Cooper recalls when he first met with Chu-Ki-Nren in Tokyo. "Imagine sitting across the table from Joseph Mengele." Still, he decided to help because "young people in Japan live in a historical black hole...