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A. "A chance to gape at a naked old man on a motorcycle lured millions of Americans to movie theaters this weekend for Waking Ned Devine ."
Bill Gates may not be waking up in the middle of the night worried about whether Netscape has stormed the Ardennes on the way to Sedan, but I'm sure somebody at Microsoft is worried (probably Steve Ballmer, a college buddy of mine who would wake up in the middle of the night if he bothered to sleep), and is working on a devastating counterattack this very moment.
This should be no surprise since the EgyptAir crash permeated my waking yesterday.
We taxpayers are employing an army of lawyers and economists who spend their every waking moment--and probably a few in dreamland--thinking of ways to get Microsoft.
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams,Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems;Even the dearest, that I love the best,Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.