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...cause confusion, rob the victor of his spoil, and vitiate what remains democratic in the system." Over in Paris, there was concern that the U.S. media had taken everyone for suckers. "When CNN and the other networks made these errors on calling Florida, it set off a worldwide media chain reaction," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "There is concern here that everyone from the average Joe watching French TV to the French president - and even Gore and Bush themselves - were taken in by the U.S. media's false alarm...
...moments later, Sade slips into a small dressing room. She politely asks the reporter who is with her for permission to light a cigarette and then proceeds to chain-smoke for the duration of the interview. She smiles readily and laughs often, but something soft and vulnerable in her seems to clench reflexively - like a baby's fist around an adult's finger - when personal questions are raised. She exhales anxious gray smoke. She's not the interview type...
...music is ominous, the footage grainy: a pickup truck with Texas plates, a chain tied to the bumper, something unseen hooked to the other end as the truck pulls away. The voice is that of James Byrd Jr.'s daughter, recalling her father's 1998 death and George W. Bush's refusal to back a new hate-crimes bill. The kicker: "We won't be dragged away from our future...
...that's just a taste. All told, air time for campaign 2000 TV ads may have cost $1 billion. And as TV repeated the same presidential, single-issue, House, Senate and ballot-proposal ads hour after hour, it became nearly impossible to receive vital information on which fast-food chain has the Backstreet Boys promotion. Some pitch-drunk voters say this is a bad thing. I say this: Anyone who whines about being deluged with political ads is a crybaby who does not deserve to live in the greatest country on earth. Complaining about having a disproportionate voice in choosing...
...plays from the University of California at Berkeley's online extension school. As for the course itself, I was pleasantly surprised. The lectures were enthralling and the work demanding. The feedback from my professor, Mary Ann Koory, was voluminous, near instantaneous and often launched a spirited e-mail chain between us. I had much more contact with her than with many a teacher who presided over a packed lecture hall. And in certain ways, I got to know her much better than my own thesis adviser, who had to juggle his class preparation, graduate students and writing books. (I even...