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...damage. Still, the idea of synergy does help to explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed on this story and it's fast forward with too few editors who press the pause button." In a realm where the impatient reader can download the relevant information (say, the Starr report) within minutes of its release, the multimedia corporations live and die based on whether they can attract consumers quickly and refer them to the other resources and media outlets they...
Call it red-button relations. After all that speechmaking on the need for economic reform -- most of it preached to the economists who don't need it, rather than the politicians who do -- the only real action taken by President Clinton during his two-day summit in Moscow was this: He and Yeltsin agreed to slash their nuclear stockpiles by 50 tons of plutonium each, and to share sensitive information on each other's missile launches. Arms control and early warning systems may not seem so relevant at a time like this, and 50 tons represents barely a quarter...
...past few weeks, there have been a thousand sound bites from self-righteous men in button-down shirts advising some variation on "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." This is an impossible standard. No one knows the whole truth. (Omniscience is not a human attribute.) Moreover, humankind cannot bear "nothing but the truth." Meursault in Camus's The Stranger is incapable of lying and is executed for it. Prince Mishkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot is a man of perfect honesty who brings disaster to everyone he meets. And in Liar, Liar, Jim Carrey...
...Russia is at the brink again, and flapping its arms like a spooked tightrope walker. But there's one comfort: Today, Russia's Communists are more like Italy's -- loud but ineffectual, and a lot more eager to oppose than they are to lead. That big red button should stay dusty for a while...
Right now it appears as if Radcliffe is in aholding pattern, but the pause button could go offanytime