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...propaganda and battlefield reports can't fill an entire broadcast day. The rest of Lighthouse TV's schedule is a wildly disjunctive cocktail of prayers and quiz shows, Egyptian sitcoms, jingle-filled ads for imported detergents and computer-generated graphics of holy men. General manager Ahmad, who abandoned a career as a mechanical engineer to join Hizballah, thinks he can "participate in the resistance" as well as turn a buck. He claims Lighthouse ranks fifth among some 50 Lebanese TV stations, and that advertising provided a third of last year's budget...
...complaints into account in future stories -- and there's nothing wrong with that. A healthy dialogue with readers can be productive, but it also tests some of the rules and conventions of the Net. Though the context of most bulletin- board exchanges is closer to that of a cocktail party than it is to a press conference, prudent journalists must assume that their E-mail postings carry the same legal risks as print or broadcast information. But the law in cyberspace is still being written. In most ways, however, reporters are finding online reporting not all that different from...
Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are defining and redefining their work through the use of cybertechnology. ``The computer is now an accepted tool,'' says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art. ``In the art world, it is no longer an issue.'' From the fashionably bohemian precincts of lower Manhattan to London...
Harvard's glitterati turned out in predictable cocktail attire to watch the show's producers roast the star of 'Forrest Gump' and 'Big,' before settling down to watch the musical...
...hard NOCs rather than the diplomatic corps. For the past four years, the CIA has been quietly expanding its NOC program, placing undercover officers in U.S. businesses that operate overseas. The reason is simple. During the cold war, CIA case officers under embassy cover could cruise foreign ministries and cocktail parties to collect intelligence on the Soviet Union. But, as last week's arrest of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef showed, drug traffickers, terrorists, nuclear smugglers, money launderers and regional warlords aren't found on the diplomatic circuit. To penetrate the new threat, unconventional covers are needed. Indeed, President Clinton's newly...