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...TiVo has decided it knows what's best for me. Pretending to be a responsible journalist, I have the news on in my office, but my TiVo - the digital TV recorder that is a trusted sidekick for my job as a television critic - figures I'd rather watch So Weird, a goopy family show on the Disney Channel. And unlike my VCR, TiVo can do something about it. A couple of clicks from its infrared channel changer and instead of the conflict in the Middle East, there's One Day at a Time's Mackenzie Phillips - yes, she's still...
...Meanwhile, terror continues. A week before the polls, ETA gunmen shot dead a PP politician as he walked to a soccer match with his son. Last week, a letter-bomb seriously injured journalist Gorka Landáburu, a frequent critic of ETA. Landáburu is as Basque as Basque can be: his father Francisco, also a journalist, was a leading nationalist who rose through the PNV ranks to become vice-'lehendakari' in exile. Which is yet more proof that terror is blind, and that newly elected lehendakari Ibarretxe is going to need all the help...
...this real medicine? Economist and Bush critic Paul Krugman calls the ever changing arguments for tax cuts "startling in their intellectual dishonesty." If that's so, will the mob return in 2004 and run the good doctor out of town...
...corruption and arrogance. For many observers both in and outside of the party, the Prime Minister will almost surely be forced to jettison some of his closest political allies. "He will do things that no other politician will do," says Sharir Samad, a senior UMNO member and frequent Mahathir critic...
...Bushies complain that enviros and most Democrats haven't bothered to wait for the release of the new proposal before dismissing it as a sop to Big Oil. They incessantly lambaste the Clinton Administration for neglecting the nation's long-term energy needs. And they scoff at any critic who suggests that the White House is too close to the energy sector...