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...Chicago Sun-Times sanctimoniously excoriated the Court for having “endorsed a wrongheaded law” and “lent credence to the unsettling notion that Congress” can interfere with personal medical decisions. Yet, in the same breath, the Windy City daily conceded the “admittedly unsettling aspect of partial-birth abortions” and confessed that “any kind of abortion procedure can be grim...
...first wave" showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live as speaker after speaker invoked memories of "free speech and the free media as Yeltsin' uppermost historical achievement," drawing waves of applause from the studio audience. This breath of fresh air in the long stagnant Russian TV atmosphere was the best tribute to Yeltsin - and the most bitter reminder of his worst failure...
...attentively as the loud, rowdy crowd surged, shouting slogans outside the barred iron gates of a sprawling Parisian townhouse. Tension in the street gradually increased until the inevitable explosion shook the entire street - a detonation preceded by an eerie silence punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President Jacques Chirac. This time...
While it wasn’t going to bring you to your feet or take your breath away, “Ask Me Anything” was funny and well executed. Let’s hope the prefrosh...
...while it may seem as if the transition is apparent for drivers—in the car is where satellite has seen much of its success thus far—the radio has all but drawn its last breath in conventional homes, too. Radio was what ushered us into the generations of in-home broadcast entertainment, but the stakes are infinitely higher today. The television has long since taken its spot as the king of the home entertainment system, but now, radio doesn’t even play second fiddle...