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...Democratic President in 52 years (since F.D.R.'s last term)? In the months leading up to the '94 election, especially with the collapse of his ambitious health-care reform, Clinton seemed like "dead meat," to use the dainty Beltway terminology. At first the Republican revolution made Clinton's doom seem even more certain. But it hasn't worked out that way. Many have noted the irony: elected on a promise to end Washington gridlock, Clinton may get re-elected as the guarantor of gridlock. He is Horatius at the bridge, our lonely defender against the Newtite hordes. Or (less partisan...
...employees who received it last year, the blandly worded letter spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...
...April 1912, when the great liner made its first and last voyage. On a starry night, aloft on a waveless ocean, the ship is seen steaming serenely toward New York City at 22 knots. In scene after scene Hansen describes an eerie quiet: the reader feels no sense of doom or foreboding. Wireless warnings of icebergs are received, without alarm...
MICHAEL KRANTZ has been fascinated by new media since the dawn of what he calls "the age of infobahn hype." He's a self-confessed recovering Doom II addict who has written about everything from Nintendo to nanotechnology; this week he covers Time Warner's all but completed acquisition of Turner Broadcasting. Before joining TIME, Krantz was a senior editor at Mediaweek and an indefatigable free-lancer (his work appeared in such magazines as New York, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker). He is also that lucky man who is happy in his job. "My field," he says...
Contrary to the doom and gloom prophesied by the traditional pessimists, what I witnessed firsthand during my short stay in the Holy Land revitalized my own hopes for the future. The smiling faces of Israeli children on beaches their parents defend hourly belie the ominous predictions of out-of-touch journalists. Netanyahu's victory was a victory for anyone who has chosen to put their faith in security as the most important stepping stone to lasting peace and sovereignty not just for Israelis, but for all peoples in the Middle East. Netanyahu gives us faith that a new generation...