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Like those in Kishinev, the Crown Heights riots were launched on the pretext of a wrong done by Jews to their non-Jewish neighbors. In both cases, the murderers used the excuse provided by incidents of questionable relevance to launch their attacks against defenseless individuals. In both riots, the victims were identified as targets because of their Jewishness and local governments were accused of complicity, if not active support of the murderers...
...computer revolution, the techies who run America Online have a pretty shaky grasp of basic math. Let's see: you're the most successful online service in Internet history, with membership rolls shooting up in only three years from 500,000 to 7 million. You're about to launch a snazzy TV ad campaign built around a radical change in pricing policy: from stiff, pay-by-the-hour bills to unlimited all-you-can-eat access to the Internet for $19.95 a month. Yet you have added only a modest number of modems to the 200,000 you already need...
...cities susceptible to the NF's anti-foreigner campaign. While mainstream politicians tried to downplay the most recent victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen as an aberration, TIME's Bruce Crumley calls the development worrying: "This concentration of power in the south provides the party with the base to launch a major offensive in the run up to next year's national elections." Scandal-ridden Socialists and conservatives risk being railroaded by the extremists, says Crumley: "NF candidates may be regarded by disgruntled voters as the only alternative to tainted mainstream politicians...
Which is probably one reason Philip Morris has started a new record label, called Woman Thing Music, after the ad slogan for its Virginia Slims brand ("It's a woman thing"). The company intends to launch new female performers by underwriting their albums and sponsoring live performances. Its first release, due this spring, is a six-song mini-album by 27-year-old Martha Byrne (who plays Lily on the TV soap As the World Turns). But here's the catch: the album will be available only in a package along with two packs of Virginia Slims (cost: around...
...Democrats' war on Gingrich took a dubious turn last week when they rolled out a new weapon: electronic eavesdropping. First, the history: on Dec. 21, Gingrich gave the House ethics committee a statement admitting he had given it wrong information--inadvertently, he said. He agreed not to launch a G.O.P. spin campaign to refute the charges. But then he appeared at least to bend that promise in a conference call with G.O.P. leaders, when he strategized about the content and timing of the statements they would put out. Congressman John Boehner joined in by cell phone from Florida; a scanner...