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...What's It All About, Tony?" Michael Elliott tried to explore the personal and psychological motivations of British Prime Minister Tony Blair [Feb. 23]. Because Britons feel it is impossible to understand perfectly what makes Blair tick, they focus instead on other actors in the British Parliament who chat over details of policy until Blair finally works out a decision based on his own sense of what is "the right thing to do." It is our faith in the moral and intellectual machinery of world leaders like Blair that allows them to maintain our confidence as they wield power...
...film, visits Shakira backstage in Mexico City, where he lives. In the movie Shakira describes the author as "one of those people who will never die, for sure not in my heart." The two met in 1999 when Garcia Marquez interviewed Shakira for a magazine, a planned one-hour chat that lasted five. Comparing navel rings perhaps...
Next you'll need the right software. While Yahoo and MSN offer free video chatting through their instant-messaging programs, their video features feel like afterthoughts. Instead of launching video immediately, their programs first make you launch a text chat and then add audio and video...
...just $5 a month, a new program from SightSpeed in Berkeley, Calif., is a better option. Just click on the name of the person you want to chat with, and SightSpeed Video Messenger sends a message inviting him or her to chat. As soon as the recipient clicks O.K., a Post-it-size video window appears onscreen, and you can start talking. A picture-in-a-picture option lets you see your own image in a smaller window. In my tests over a DSL connection, the video was a little blurry but good enough to see expression on the other...
...downside to video chat is that it sometimes reveals too much. I couldn't help noticing that my testing partner, Maryanne, looked bored and distracted while we chatted with each other. (O.K., so maybe I tend to babble.) And I wasn't thrilled with how I looked on the webcam either. I quickly discovered that video chatting involves a new kind of etiquette. You have to smile and give your webcam lots of eye contact. Before starting, it's also good to check the mirror to make sure you like how you look. And what if you need...