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Unlike Mandela, who often exhorts South Africans to forget the past, Sparks wants them to remember. The object lesson of his narrative is not how complicated the negotiating process was but how dicey and tentative, how easily it might have gone off the rails. Divisions within the a.n.c. and the National Party proved more dangerous than discord between them. During the narrative, Mandela and De Klerk emerge not as ideologues or saviors but as hard-headed pragmatists and canny politicians...
...entire $5 billion video-game industry. Traditionally, the month of December is make-or- break time in the business -- when millions of parents decide what to buy their game-playing vidkids, and when manufacturers rake in 35% to 40% of their annual revenue. But the situation is particularly dicey this year. The industry is in the middle of a delicate transition -- from the so-called 16- bit technology at the heart of today's Sega and Nintendo machines to the next-generation game systems that can process data 32 or 64 bits at a time. It was during a similar...
...than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects for the show (halfway through a six-week summer run) are dicey. Which is sad, because She TV is not just a gender-bending gimmick; it really is a breakthrough...
Admittedly, buying a box set is always somewhat of a dicey proposition, but this particular set's very attractive price and solid readings will make a worthy addition to a serious collection...
...dicey week for taste in the world of marketing...