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This is not to say that all generalities are bad, of course. Tocqueville made a critical distinction between the kind of generalization and rule-making that "results from the slow, detailed and conscientious labor of the mind" and the more pernicious kind used by the Littleton pundits, that "springs up at once from the first quick exercise of the wits and begets only very superficial and uncertain notions...
...like Mondays," Brenda Spencer, 16, told reporters by telephone as she held off San Diego police for six hours. But who was she trying to kill as she repeatedly fired a .22-cal. rifle at Cleveland Elementary School from her home across the street? "No one in particular. I kind of like the red and blue jackets." While Brenda chatted on the telephone, the terrified pupils and teachers huddled on the floor of the bullet-sprayed school. Principal Burton Wragg and Custodian Michael Suchar were both slain by the gunfire at the school's front yard. Eight children...
...specifics of a peace plan: some nations dread the idea of an independent Kosovo; others embrace it. What Clinton and his confreres have left unsettled is just how they intend to fight this war to the finish--and that, more than any photo-op cheeriness, will determine what kind of alliance 21st century NATO will turn...
...That kind of thinking has created a huge gap between the valuations of Internet stocks and the rest of the world. "It can't last forever," says Intel chairman Andy Grove, whose company owns 8.6% of CMGI. "The Web world has one set of rules and the rest of the world has another." In other words, something's got to give. Last week some of CMGI's investors took their money off the table, and CMGI traded as low as $185 before bargain hunters--and only in the Net world is $200 a share a bargain--drove it back...
Valuation questions aside, old-media and new-media firms have to link up. Nearly every old-media firm needs some kind of new-media footprint to distribute its content and capitalize on the e-commerce and marketing opportunities offered by the Internet. AT&T, for instance, controls Net portal @Home and cable company TCI. Last week it made a bid for Mediaone, another cable firm with investments in entertainment. Thus AT&T wants to deliver everything to everybody--from phone service to cable TV to e-commerce--over a variety of networks...