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Failure is the toughest American wilderness. Robert Bly, who is now a leader of the men's movement and author of Iron John, spent some years in the territory. His wilderness lies three hours west of Minneapolis, out toward the South Dakota border, in flat farm country around Madison (pop. 2,000), Minn., "the Lutefisk Capital of the World...
...overrule the democratic branches of government -- is a funny business. Judges do not have that power in other major democracies, and it is not explicitly authorized in the U.S. Constitution. It emerges, rather, from the structure of our government. As Justice John Marshall first reasoned in Marbury vs. Madison (1803): faced with a conflict between a law and a constitutional provision, judges must honor the Constitution. All government officials should do the same. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution is definitive only because procedurally it comes last...
...bottom-line orientation, were taking control. Through it all, Auletta was the proverbial fly on the wall. He talked regularly with the corporate chiefs as well as with network programmers and news anchormen; sat in on sales meetings and affiliate conferences; examined the workings of the TV business from Madison Avenue to Universal City...
That is certainly true; but there have been too few of those good ideas around lately. Advertising Age, the industry's leading journal, was so disturbed by the quality of Madison Avenue's work during the past year that in March it declined to award its vaunted "Agency of the Year" prize for the first time since it began the practice in 1973. Said the editors: "While there was a goodly amount of clever recycling around, conceptual innovations were in short supply." Ad Age concluded, probably correctly, that the main reason for the relative dullness of recent work by agencies...
Fickler than ever, clients are sowing fear on Madison Avenue...