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DIED. WAU HOLLAND, 49, one of the world's earliest-known computer hackers; after a stroke; in Hamburg, Germany. With several other early hackers, Holland founded the Chaos Computer Club, which advocated the free exchange of information and introduced the public to issues of inadequate Internet security. In 1987 the club hacked into NASA computers to demonstrate those security shortcomings...
...EDITH IN THE BUNKER: Edith Wilson ran the executive branch, if not the whole government, during Woodrow Wilson's last year and a half in office, after he had a debilitating stroke. Former NYT reporter Phyllis Lee Levin tells the story of the Wilson presidency in "Edith and Woodrow: The Wilson White House" (Scribner; October 11). PW gives it a glowing starred review. "A beautifully written and impeccably researched account...These issues have been discussed in more than one previous history, but no other writer has gone as deeply into the archives to marshall the strong proof that Levin presents...
Then Walsh ushered in Kolya, a 145-lb. shaggy white Great Pyrenees, who climbed right up onto the woman's bed and snuggled against her body. Five minutes passed in silence. Then the woman's hand moved slowly toward the dog. She began to stroke his soft, thick coat. Another five minutes passed. The woman smiled and murmured, "So lovely..." "For half an hour she kept petting him and calling him 'my friend,'" says Walsh. "The whole time, I watched the blood-pressure monitor go down, down, down...
...time the House GOP leadership drummed up the 240 votes to pass its energy bill after midnight Wednesday, the 1.5 million-acre swath of the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge Bush had earmarked for exploration had been shrunk by compromise to 2,000 acres - and backers had to stroke the labor unions (salivating over construction jobs in the tundra) to get that...
...batteries won’t run out, don’t drop the H-bomb. I made that mistake, and it cost me dearly—a lot of potential friends, nice people who are reluctant to see anything deeper in me than the fact that by some lucky stroke of admissions, I got into Harvard. What they don’t realize is that in interrogating me about the college I attend, they aren’t telling me anything about themselves, which would have taught me so much more than an ability to recite the same dialogue...