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...blacks have very little power, economic, political or cultural. There are no rich Aborigines, no Aboriginal-owned newspapers, no Aboriginal ceos of Australian companies. Out of the 224 elected members of the Senate and House of Representatives, which form the Australian Parliament in Canberra, only one is Aboriginal, the brilliant and resolute young politician Aden Ridgeway. Aboriginal influence is exerted mainly through bureaucracy, committees and the courts; for political clout, Aborigines depend largely on the sympathy and support of whites...
...Action" died quickly last fall, owing less to Lieberman's seal of disapproval than to the fact that its scathing, brilliant satire was too "inside" for most viewers. One would hope Lieberman (and his Republican allies like Bill Bennett) would take the lesson: that audiences are perfectly capable of changing the channel, accepting and rejecting entertainment in a free market. But don't count...
Ross's credibility is due in some part to longevity. In an unusual Washington feat, he traversed Administrations from Republican to Democrat after Clinton's 1992 victory. "Ross just blew everyone away with how brilliant he was," says former Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry. As evidence, his former bosses, not usually the most talkative of men, return calls about Ross within minutes. "I don't do this very often," says Warren Christopher, taking time from his duties head-hunting for Al Gore's prospective vice-presidential candidate, "but Dennis is a special favorite. I've never known anyone more deeply committed...
...weird sitcoms are more interesting than bad, generic ones. But they're still bad. The creators of the brilliant '90s Nickelodeon children's show The Adventures of Pete and Pete have brought their cartoonish, jump-cut surrealism to The War Next Door. The clever premise has a CIA agent turned car salesman followed to the suburbs by his evil, supergenius archenemy. It turns out, though, that the same team also wrote Snow Day, and unfortunately this show veers toward their more recent work, with flat jokes and obvious dialogue. At its best it's a dumb adult show that really...
...interest in inheritance taxes? For one thing, there is the booming economy, which has raised the number of millionaires and those who think they can become millionaires. There's also the federal budget surplus, which has fueled tax-cutting desires in both parties. But the biggest factor is a brilliant marketing campaign by Republican foes of the estate tax. To combat the plutocratic image of estate holders, they circulated heart-rending tales of small businesses and farms bankrupted by the estate tax. Most shrewdly, Republican pollsters realized that few voters get angry over taxes on estates because few of them...