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...rehabbed hell of 14 Plympton St. Because we were the What?—and hence scoffed at by the newshound bosses—and because The Crimson was tight on space, the three of us were exiled to the most dismal sub-sub-basement, a cave at the bitter end of the cellar, past the presses and the half-tone machine. Our putrid little home glistened with slime-mold, reeked of ink, photo chemicals, and rot, and was cluttered with mysterious tin buckets sloshing with murky green chemicals. The stink would make us slightly queasy, but during good weeks...
...Optimism is everywhere - about the recession being short and not too bitter, about tech stocks leading the way back to profits, about the war in Afghanistan, about the economic stimulus package. Even about Enron - up 26 cents to $1.16 - which may actually live to trade weather futures another day with the help of its self-interested rescuers at J.P. Morgan Chase...
...Afghanistan can unite politicians only so long. As the flag waving and patriotic speeches die down, bitter domestic squabbles are returning that will divide Congress and the White House. One of the most heated battles is over the question of where to bury 7,7,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by this country's nuclear reactors...
Granted, using aid from the outside to build a nation is difficult anywhere. In Afghanistan (which, riven by bitter ethnic rivalries, barely counts as a nation at all) it will be a challenge for heroes. But the third front is the most difficult of all. For millions in the cities of the developing world, even in places that have seen miraculous economic growth, the promise of plenty is an illusion. Like the children in a Victorian novel, they press their nose against the windows of a house within which tables groan under jellies and pies. Relative poverty did not create...
...remake it? The new Brian's Song (Sunday, Dec. 2, 7 p.m. E.T.) follows the original's playbook so closely that it never really answers the question. But it makes a few changes--good, bad and curious. Sayers (here, Mekhi Phifer) and Piccolo (Sean Maher) were bitter rivals before they were friends, and the remake does a better job showing how the flinchy, all-business Sayers, a born superstar, clashed with Piccolo, who compensated for his middling talent with hard work and disarming jokes. The update also looks more closely at the subtle prejudice the African American Sayers faced among...