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This is the moment of existential dread. Naked onstage, with no props, no scenery, no place to hide. The audience is rapacious in its demands: loosen our inhibitions; make us laugh. Onstage, life is stripped to bare essentials. The voice, the timing, the jokes are your only weapons. Every second of uneasy silence is a little death. I launch into my monologue: "You've been reading about Kenneth Starr and grand-jury leaks. Well, I can't get one. I'm the Rodney Dangerfield of investigative reporters." A small laugh, less than a guffaw, more than a titter. But that...
...Federal Communications Commission is turning into a nightmare for small businesses and residential consumers, who will, after all, foot the bill for the e-rate program. The FCC has created an unnecessary and costly bureaucracy to administer a seemingly unlimited federal entitlement. While the FCC attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes at too high a price. It's time for Congress to pull the plug on the FCC's shell...
...impossible to deny that the '90s have been considerably less tumultuous than the '60s. We can't hide the fact that few of us have been dragged down the steps of a university building while demanding free speech or that more of us spend our summers in the corporate corridors of Wall Street than on freedom rides to Mississippi. And yes, TV watching is up, video games consume our time and hands and, despite the best efforts of organizations like MTV's Rock the Vote, too many Americans turn 18 without thinking about registering...
...enforced only within U.S. borders. Unfortunately, a bill sponsored by Senators Frank Murkowski (R., Alaska) and Robert Torricelli (D., N.J.), which unanimously passed the Senate on May 13 and is being considered by the House, might actually aggravate the spam scene. The bill would fine junk mailers who hide their return addresses--that is, the vast majority of spammers. It would require them to list their real snail-mail addresses, telephone numbers and legal names. And supposedly, spammers would be forced to honor requests from folks who want their names taken off mailing lists...
...Never Smile Again of 1940 to Hey Look, No Crying of 1981--there were songs that eluded him till the end. Studio outtakes and bootlegs show him chiding the arranger, bugging the conductor, riding the band and beating up on himself with a good-humored swagger that doesn't hide the disappointment and frustration that are chewing him up. You can hear the defeat in his voice, as if he had lost a chance at lasting love...