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Along with such Clinton campaign veterans as George Stephanopoulos and Mandy Grunwald, I spend my waking hours trying to decipher a political riddle far more baffling than Hillary Clinton's uncanny knack for picking winners in the commodities markets. Who is "Anonymous," the reclusive author of Primary Colors (Random House; $24), the sensitively wrought, deftly drawn, acid-tongued political novel that is a thinly veiled re-creation of the 1992 Democratic primary race...
...Good students tend to cluster, not at random, as it were, at secondary schools across the country," Fitzsimmons says. "When a school gets a reputation for having a lot of students accepted to Harvard, the top students will want to go to that school. More graduates will get in, attracting better students...
...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...studded political monthly "George" has hit its first public potholes. Eric Etheridge, the magazine's editor, is leaving after just two issues, citing "editorial differences." Kennedy, whose title is editor-in-chief, will reportedly assume Etheridge's hands-on duties at the magazine, a joint undertaking between Kennedy's Random Ventures Inc. and French publisher Hachette Filipacchi. From the beginning "George" defied the odds against political publications by selling 500,000 copies of its innaugural issue. And though it received favorable critical reviews, the magazine's initial success was attributed to the star quality of the 35-year-old Kennedy...
...Specialist Meadows, 21, had been drinking and nightclubbing when they allegedly drove to Campbell Terrace to harass blacks. The soldiers, members of the 82nd Airborne Division, had reportedly gone on such excursions before. This time, as Meadows waited in the car, Wright and Burmeister allegedly picked their quarry at random, accosted the couple and killed them. Meadows has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder; Wright and Burmeister face first-degree murder charges--and the death penalty if convicted...