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...months, Boston's Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project (better known as The Big Dig) has been hit by a new wave of criticism. The attack has come from Rep. Frank Wolfe, Republican of Virginia and chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation. Local politicians have always been adept at pouncing on the project's numerous gaffes and missteps, but Wolfe's campaign is entirely unique. It is indicative of a new era in Boston politics...
...rest of us are not so adept. The White House called in the Secret Service. I had to get help from my local Internet provider, which managed to reduce the flow to about 50 messages an hour. Who knows what's going on at the congressional E-mailbox of Newt Gingrich, another victim? He has an automated-reply program that answers every E-mail that comes in. At week's end, millions of his form letters were still being beamed to Internet users all over the world...
From the Willie Horton ads to Proposition 187 in California to the recent attacks on affirmative action, the Republicans show how adept they are at playing on people's fears and prejudices. They are scapegoating criminals, people of color, immigrants, welfare recipients, etc. for the failures of the old capitalist economic system. It is a tactic as old as recorded history and is known as "divide and conquer" or "divide and rule." The amazing thing is that people never catch on. It works every time...
Last year I had a job which had previously been held by a Harvard student. Apparently he had been fairly adept at producing quality work but equally proficient at telling everyone else in the office how to do their job. For the first month (when they had no idea I was going to go to Harvard), my co-workers displayed an unceasing desire to explain how this kid represented every impression they had ever had about Harvard. They recognized that he was talented, aggressive, and driven, but they despised his attitude...
...himself is to be instructed in the art of seeing both sides of an equation. He thinks the Internet has been oversold, yet he's visibly excited about his equity interest in the Internet Shopping Network, an online retailer. He claims to despise hype and yet is manifestly adept at its use. He thinks Beavis and Butt-head are, as he once told Rolling Stone, "breathtakingly horrible. But great. No, not great. Good." One might be tempted to say that Diller embraces contradiction with Zen-like equanimity, although equanimity is probably not a strong suit in someone famous for screaming...