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...point is this: the general media have become host to tabloid content. Steve Coz knows this, and he's getting a bang out of moralizing from a position of weakness. The mainstream media have failed to do their job, namely to speak up for their reader by explaining the events of the big world to him or her by highlighting what is important, not what is entertaining. That's a job for the tabloids. What's important, like state budgets, the spread of disease and urban planning, can be made interesting because these are the issues that matter to real...
...WEEK BEGAN with a bang and ended with a bear. The explosion was the sound of the Justice Department?s first salvo against Microsoft?s mighty monopoly. As Janet Reno and her trusty second-in-command Joel Klein stormed the ramparts of Redmond in search of the secrets of Internet Explorer 4, their mightiest weapon was the threat of a million-dollar-a-day fine if Bill Gates didn?t play nice...
...satisfyingly rich, juicy slice of '50s noir, and quite possibly the most deftly crafted film to emerge yet this year. Slicker and less disturbingly gritty than "Chinatown," but more bang-out entertaining, it's boosted by a a superlative cast--the crown jewel of which is a trio of masterful performances by Kevin Spacey and Aussie newcomers Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce (particularly the latter) as the unlikely LAPD allies who attempt to disinter the sordid, convoluted truth behind an apparently cut-and-dried murder case...
...theme of this year's ceremony was "The Big Bang" and many of the evening's performances such as an opera titled "Il Kaboom Grosso" reflected the theme...
...that may be too much buck and too little bang to sway a Congress averse to social spending. But even as they went about savaging the national-test plan last week, the White House's opponents on the Hill proffered an expensive alternative. "Rather than spend [millions] on one more test," Goodling said, "House Republicans and many Democrats would rather send federal dollars directly to the classroom." Sounds surprisingly un-Republican. Did we mention that 1998 is an election year...