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...long flirted with the idea of historical amnesia, treating the past as though it were a drag on invention, it was not equipped to deal with the actual destruction of that past by war and ideology. Whole tracts of culture-German Romanticism; classical sculpture, with its image of the ideal, prosperous body-had been laid waste, fatally contaminated, by the use the Nazis had made of them, just as the Realist option had been wrecked by official Stalinist...
...minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...shops within a 10-minute walk of Harvard Yard (see related article, this page). There is free live music on the streets every night. When it gets too hot, people play in the fountain in front of the Science Center. For summer in the city, it's pretty much ideal...
...represented by court-appointed attorneys. In the Supreme Court's landmark 1963 decision, Gideon v. Wainwright, the Justices cited the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of the right to counsel and declared that indigent defendants accused of felonies must be provided with attorneys because, wrote Justice Hugo Black, the "noble ideal" of a fair trial is impossible if the poor man must "face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him." In 1972 the High Court extended this rule to all crimes, including misdemeanors, that result in imprisonment for any length of time. But ensuring this right falls, ultimately, on local...
That would give Gerstner an ideal weapon for challenging industry giant Microsoft, which dominates most other parts of the desktop software business. Not only would IBM reap increasing revenues from sales of Notes, but other software companies could use it as a "platform" on which to build their own programs and thereby turn it into a global standard. "In this industry he who is first garners an enormous amount of benefit," Gerstner says. But Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who plans to roll out a groupware program called Exchange later this year, dismissed the IBM-Lotus alliance. "I just...