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...N.A.A.C.P.'s complaint focused largely on minority characters. But the casting disparity was the good news, compared with that in the creative and executive ranks. Nearly all the executives who can approve series are white, and a 1998 report by the Writers Guild of America found that 92% of all black TV writers work for mostly black-cast sitcoms. And again, that's the good news. At least there are black-cast sitcoms to be segregated on, an option other minorities don't have...
...bond market has taken his hints and moved accordingly. A couple of years ago I ran into Greenspan's predecessor, the aggressive inflation fighter Paul Volcker, and asked him what he thought of Greenspan's performance. Volcker, a financial heavyweight, wouldn't grade Greenspan, but he voiced a mock complaint that Greenspan was getting a lot of credit for prosperous times without having to break a sweat. The vigilantes were doing it for him. When traders whiffed inflation, they chased long-term rates higher to curb borrowing power and cool the economy...
...That complaint may be valid. "Britain considered India the cornerstone of its empire," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Much of British foreign policy was designed around protecting its access to India. But the U.S. hasn't taken India nearly as seriously, partly because of the leftist slant of most of its post-independence governments." New Delhi's nonaligned position during the Cold War (which often put it in the Soviet camp, diplomatically) was underscored by the socialist orientation of most of its governments since independence. Relations particularly deteriorated in the early '70s, after the Nixon administration aligned Washington closely...
...cigarette makers. Even in the competitive field of corporate double-talk, they've cornered the market on denial and legal foot-dragging. Just a year or so after finally admitting that cigarettes do in fact cause serious health problems, and only 10 years after an official complaint was filed on the subject, one major tobacco company looks as if it may address another cigarette-related public relations disaster: The ease with which sleeping or distracted smokers can cause fires. The likelihood of these accidents is exacerbated, critics attest, by the fast-burning paper currently used in cigarettes. According...
MOST PERSISTENT COMPLAINT "This is my 1,597th letter to the editor--and you've published not a single...