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Exactly a week after the sex scandal broke, Clinton achieved the highest approval ratings of his five-year presidency. That may have been a miracle, but it was no accident: Americans are less puritanical and more forgiving than the cartoon version suggests, and this President is never better than in his worst moments. Starr meanwhile was left trying to build a case around a single witness who was neither entirely cooperative nor totally credible, whose own lawyer admitted she was given to exaggeration, who a source said tried to bribe another witness, and who described herself as a lifelong liar...
Shareef Cousin, convicted murderer, has a cartoon figure tattooed on his left forearm. It's one of those blurry prison deals, done quick, dirty and cheap. He's not certain if it's Beavis or Butt-head. In any case, it's one of his last emblems of fleeting youth. In 1996 Cousin was sentenced to death for the murder of 25-year-old Michael Gerardi in a 1995 street robbery in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Cousin was only 16 years old when he was convicted and sentenced, making him one of the youngest condemned convicts...
...been heralded by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates alike as the great equalizer, providing all people everywhere with access to the same knowledge, this laudable--if lofty--vision of the Internet begs serious consideration of the laws of access and privacy on the Web. A smart and pointed cartoon in the Dec. 15 issue of The New Yorker takes a stab at the anonymity and freedom of the Internet. The cartoon depicts a big dog who sits at a desk in front of a computer telling a smaller dog: "On the Internet, nobody knows...
Imagine what would happen if they watched The Nanny. Last Tuesday 600 Japanese children were hospitalized after going into convulsions triggered by the optical effects of an episode of POKEMON, a cartoon based on a Nintendo game. Later that night 100 more kids went down after the news showed clips from the program. Flashing lights have long been known to trigger photosensitive epilepsy. In this case the reaction seems to have been brought on by the combination of the graphics, the children's age, and the way many Japanese TV viewers sit really close to giant screens...
...Cartoon Rat Attacks Children Red lights flashing from the eyes of a rat in a Japanese animated TV show sent 729 children into epileptic seizures yesterday. Doctors and animators are puzzling over the reasons...