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...going to find anything good to write about?" people ask again and again, as though they are aware of how things must look to a bunch of outsiders and know that much of what is great and sweet and honorable in these places never makes headlines. The Cairo deputy fire chief will tell you how many people appear in an instant, out of nowhere, when a windstorm sweeps through town and smashes a block of homes. Anyplace you have good friends is a place worth staying. Here and elsewhere, there are big groups of people--ministers and teachers and store...
Others try to write something creative, but the results are comically similar. Exploring the forgotten signers of the Declaration of Independence, Jacoby's theme on Monday, seems clever and new at first--but it turns out it's nearly as common as, for instance, remembering the sacrifice of America's veterans. The half dozen Fourth of July columns that celebrate John Hart all sound exactly the same. Reform Party presidential candidate and conservative scribe Patrick Buchanan, on July 4, 1994: "Disaster struck 'Honest John' Hart first. Just months after he signed, British and Hessian troops invaded New Jersey, forcing...
...article about memory was excellent, and I was going to write you something about it, but I forgot what it was." MARGARITA M. HORNER West Palm Beach...
After reading your health-care story "Curing Managed Care" [BUSINESS, June 12], I wondered what would happen if we "providers" had the courage to write the insurance companies and tell them we will no longer be managed-care contract providers? I'm for it if my colleagues will join me! GARY M. GORLICK, M.D. Los Angeles...
...Gates & Co. unveiled .NET ("dot-net"), a clunkily named companywide initiative that aims to at long last yank the company--whose main products still come shrink-wrapped--into the Internet age. Gates and his troops hauled out gadgets that were truly cool (a new Net-friendly tablet PC you write on with a pen), and videos that tried too hard to be (a promo for a new Net protocol with a hipster saying, "I told you it's the bomb...