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...well-worn paths to redemption. When they heard Condit was finally ready to jump on the media barbecue last week, two of Bill Clinton's many lawyers actually sat around their offices writing the script in their heads. The drill is so routine by now that you can practically download it from meaculpa.com "I did a stupid thing, America. In an attempt to protect my family and Chandra Levy's, I kept my mouth shut when I should have gone immediately to the police. I shouldn't have waited for them to come to me. These are mistakes I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not To Rebuild A Reputation | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...before the Mercury went on the air. Many more shows - 18 of 22 "Mercury?s" and 29 of 56 episodes of its sponsored successor, "Campbell Playhouse" - can be heard with a RealPlayer attach-ment on your current entertainment furniture of choice. This is a plea and an order: click, download, close your eyes and surrender to astonishment. In many, most of the shows, you?ll find great pieces of radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Mercury, God of Radio | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...send you this file in order to have your advice." I knew it was a virus because my friend's first language is English. Unfortunately, when I tried to open the attachment, my e-mail program detected the virus and wouldn't let me download it. I don't know why it draws the line there but lets me continue to correspond with a guy whose screen name is "Butterface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worm Turns...Out To Be A Bust | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...future of online reading is to be believed, folks who eyeball each line with a snail-like finger had better have deep pockets. On Monday Rosetta Books, a major player in the nascent e-book market, announced a "$1 for 10 hours of reading" deal. You pay a buck, download the book, then 10 hours later the text gets all scrambled up. Haven't finished? Tough luck; you have to pay again to unlock it. Right now this is just a trial deal attached to one tome - Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" - but you don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Column Will Self-Destruct in 60 Seconds | 8/8/2001 | See Source »

...future of e-books is this: reading is about to become a privilege, not a right. Publishing companies are licking their lips at all the potential opportunities to make you pay for copyrighted collections of 26 characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Column Will Self-Destruct in 60 Seconds | 8/8/2001 | See Source »

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