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...virtually everyone agrees that Podesta, 49, possesses a rare skill at scandal management. He is a lawyer with a fine ear for how things will play politically, which gives him an entree with the two main factions (the legal team and the spinners) that have riven the White House since the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. The lawyer in him can gather the facts; the political hand knows how to spin them...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...
...song album, described by band manager Judy Collins as "catchy, alternative pop," is the first of four Baby Ray is scheduled to make with the New York indie label Thirsty Ear Records...
...ever sells. Which poses the big questions: If and when a crash starts, what should the press say? Which analysts -- pessimists or optimists -- should they interview? Because a heavily invested America will know about it instantly. And with the sound of a thousand talking heads buzzing in its collective ear, the next Great Depression (or the next harmless Black Monday of 1987) could be decided by a coin flip...
...everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach certainly has appeal from the cost side. But there are pitfalls that may turn out to be penny wise, pound foolish for some people. Those stereo speakers, for instance. While I am no Leonard Bernstein, I believe I have a fairly discerning ear. And that ear could hardly tell the difference between the Altec-Lansings and the no-brand speaker that comes on most laptops. I'm not sure, really, who'd use them; the sound on my demo model was too low-fidelity (and the volume just too low, even cranked...