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Issue: April 8, 1998

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1. Byte Me

Undeveloped

Frank Catalano Published: April 8, 1998

On my refrigerator hangs an old cartoon in which Dilbert, extolling the freedom his laptop computer and cellular phone give him, is questioned by Dogbert as to where he might...
2. Watchdogs

Biased Barkers

John Hamer and Mariana Parks Published: April 8, 1998

As Initiative 200, the Washington State Civil Rights Initiative, moves toward the fall ballot, citizens should watch closely how the media portray the measure. Do they describe...
3. News

Boeing's discount jets

Rick Anderson Published: April 8, 1998

Phil Condit is no Cal Worthington "and his dog, Spot." But the Boeing CEO will make his own kind of sales deal if you're in the market for a nice jumbo jet with a nick or two....
4. News

Outrage over outreach

Mark D. Fefer Published: April 8, 1998

AS THE ANTI-AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION measure Initiative 200 heads for a statewide November vote, it's clear that wording on the ballot and in campaign materials will be key. Last...
5. News

The Thrift Shift

Amy Halloran Published: April 8, 1998

I come from a long line of hard bargainers. My grandmother used to propel my young father through stores on sale days, chanting, "Sick boy, sick boy!" to clear the way to her...
6. News

Start-ing over

Mike Romano Published: April 8, 1998

On March 31, without much fanfare, Microsoft ceased production of original entertainment content for the Web, thus ending its ballyhooed run as a new media production company....
7. News

Police academy follies

Nina Shapiro Published: April 8, 1998

What do you call a police academy student who graduates at the bottom of his class? Officer. That raises some troubling questions given that it appears to be difficult for a...
8. Music

Running mates

Todd McGovern Published: April 8, 1998

It wasn't exactly an announcement of her candidacy, but Freakwater's Catherine Irwin did speak of political aspirations at a recent show at New York's Mercury Lounge. She...
9. Music

How sweet the sound

Kathryn Robinson Published: April 8, 1998

In her astonishing new bookAmazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, poet and Christian Kathleen Norris recalls a reading she once gave at a college. "I can be a good person...
10. Music

On Walden Pop

Roni Sarig Published: April 8, 1998

Though surrealist imagery and kaleidoscopic melodies might imply hippie-damaged psychedelia to some, Neutral Milk Hotel's stunning new album, In the Aeroplane over the Sea...
11. Film

Appetites for destruction

Claire Dederer Published: April 8, 1998

Coffee, burgers, beer, carrots, hot fudge sundaes, eggs, cigarettes, tea, and screw-top red plonk. These are the substances the people in Minnie and Moscowitz consume, or don't...
12. Art Town

New house, new works at OTB

Roger Downey Published: April 8, 1998

"After all the stress of getting the new facility built and opened, we thought it would be nice to come up with a nice safe season of the tried and true," says On the Boards'...