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...Walters, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel--are getting a little long in the tooth. "It's no secret that there's been a certain malaise at ABC News," says Brit Hume, former chief White House correspondent, who left ABC for Fox News in December. "There's an unmistakable sense of gradual decline...
...problem of social choice. There's a serious problem, but it's slow and gradual. If there were a real fire in the stacks, everyone would be calling someone to put it out," Verba says...
Though he continued to wield an almost mystic influence from his private Beijing compound, Deng's gradual withdrawal from overt power allowed his successors to prepare for an orderly transition. He was, like the ghosts Chinese revere, a force the current leaders dared not speak of disrespectfully. The steady rise in personal prosperity has persuaded China's citizens that their new leaders will continue to follow in Deng's footsteps without a major change of direction...
...gradual, wistful loss of his Utopian enthusiasms, though, that shapes Seabrook's narrative. Inspired by the promise of a "virtual community" to join the Well, a legendary West Coast bulletin-board system, Seabrook learns in various hard ways that a community of digital beings can be just as constraining--and cruel--as the corporeal kind. Unwritten rules abound, and when Seabrook breaches a few, the Well's otherwise benevolent group mind turns on him in what one Well veteran calls a Chicken Peck--"where one of the flock shows a bit of blood, and a few of the other chickens...
...brilliance consists in this: second terms are famous for being times of dreary brownout. In music it is called rallentando, a gradual slackening of tempo, a winding down. Dwight Eisenhower's presidency, for example, slipped into senescence in the late '50s. The jinx falls especially on those Presidents who return to the White House on landslides--Richard Nixon, for example, who annihilated George McGovern in 1972, and then, less than two years later, was forced to resign, a step ahead of the Senate's tar and feathers. Lyndon Johnson's great victory in 1964 over Barry Goldwater did not make...