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A WRITER WHO ALWAYS SEES HISTORY IN THE PRESENT TENSE No writer in Europe today has dealt more eloquently with the obligations and moral conundrums of memory than the Hungarian novelist and essayist Peter Nadas.   D-DAY ARRIVES WITH NO STRIKE CALLED . . . YET! Into the wee hours of the night talks between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers (AMPTP) quickly unraveled and came to an end without resolution. The one sticking point was the issue over DVD profit distribution, which AMPTP president Nick Counter has indicated strongly, [...]   LIBRARY OF CONGRESS AND UNESCCO SIGN WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY AGREEMENT Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and UNESCO Assistant Director for Communication and Information Abdul Waheed Khan today signed an agreement at UNESCO headquarters in Paris pledging cooperative efforts to build a World Digital Library Web site.   KILLSWITCH KILLSWITCH by Joel Shepperd. A tough-talking cute AI GI: Cassandra "Sandy" Kresnov is an android GI commander of the Callayan Defense Force (CDF), which must defeat Fleet warships sent by Earth.   IMPRESSIONS IMPRESSIONS by Matthew Babcock. Allan Douglas sees the luminescent face of Jesus in the sky over the Gulf of Tonkin before he ejects from his crippled fighter jet and, later during the technological upsurge of the 1980's, in a Toronto revival hall. He finds God then marries Mandie Hendershot, a beautiful travel agency director half his age. This string of supernal coincidences convinces Allan he leads a blessed life.   GREAT GIFTS FOR WRITERS What types of gifts would writers like? Books on writing? Writing supplies? Here are some ideas for gifts any writer would love to receive.