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...you’re going a little faster than is allowed, the police will not pull you over—I didn’t see any police presence the entire time I was in Singapore—instead, they’ll just mail you a ticket. The apparatus of state control extends even to the smallest residents of Singapore, the bugs. Or perhaps I should say the former residents, because I didn’t see a bug the entire time that I was in Singapore—quite a feat for a country that sits...
...Today it is the grassroots of Arafat's own political and security apparatus working side by side with the Islamists and other radicals in "Popular Resistance Committees," sometimes in defiance of the Palestinian leader's periodic cease-fire calls. Thus the sorry pantomime of the Palestinian leader's efforts to appear in step, such as his self-conscious toting of a Kalashnikov for the cameras while assessing Israeli bomb damage Monday. And for Arafat the ruse is self-defeating, since the further down that road he goes the more difficult becomes the return to negotiations he so desperately seeks, while...
...been a total surprise, although it should not have been. By 1990, Gorbachev's perestroika was more uncomfortable balancing act than dynamic reform program. He often seemed overwhelmed at the complexity of the task he had taken on. Reform had been premised on the assumption that dismantling the repressive apparatus of the state, admitting to the horrors of the past and trying to rectify them would strengthen the legitimacy of Gorbachev and his brand of modernized socialism. It did the opposite. The masses turned against the system and Gorbachev himself, whom they labeled a "boltun," a wind-bag. The Communist...
...been internationally famous since the 1930s, when F.D.R. named Joe the U.S. ambassador to Britain, and it still commands attention today, even when Joe's heirs decide not to run for office. How to account for the never failing presence of Kennedys in American life? Cynics point to an apparatus of publicists, friendly journalists and starry-eyed academics, all inspired by the family's wealth and charm and by our own seemingly inexhaustible curiosity--a "myth machine," in short, that for three generations has promoted a carefully nurtured image of public service, sophistication, vitality and glamour. Even the Kennedy myth...
...play from Clark. In those days my rock 'n roll delivery system was radio. And by luck, I was listening at a crucial time for two important media. For television, the mid-'50s marked the movement from reliance on regional production centers (like Philadelphia) to consolidation of the entertainment apparatus in Los Angeles and the news divisions in New York; that separation continues to this day. In radio, the reverse occurred: network programming, the preeminent form of popular entertainment for a quarter century, virtually collapsed with the rise of TV, and local stations took over with talk and music; that...