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...cranky old writer and the very bright teenager. The film's twists and turns are as predictable as the patronizing racism at the private school that grants the boy a scholarship. Something more surprising might have been made of this odd couple, but Van Sant, emptily employing the realist manner of his early films, is goodwill hunting in all the wrong places...
...world of the near future, all manner of content--magazines, movies, music, books, shopping--will be pouring into your home through your cable television line. The cable is now known as broadband because, even though it looks the same, technology has made it fatter and faster. When broadband access fuses the new and old economies with a bang, consumers will have a simple concern: If the broadband world is ruled by one company, will we have to pay more? Will we have a choice of what we watch? And if we don't stop them now, will we be able...
...market can actually encourage environmental preservation and conservation through market structure. Had the market been left alone in California and consumers been asked to pay the true cost of their energy, it's possible that the underlying folly of our economy may have been challenged in the most productive manner possible. The resulting situation might very well have led to more efficient technologies or to greater emphasis on conservation. The long-term solution to our energy troubles, after all, won't come from increasing supply simply because our supply for energy is not yet unlimited. The one effective means...
...substituted its own judgment for the rules laid out by the legislature. It was not clear, the U.S. court said, that the Florida justices adequately took into account two federal laws that speak to that point: Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which authorizes state legislatures to determine the "manner" of selecting electors, and 3 U.S.C. Sec. 5, a federal statute governing controversies over the appointment of electors...
...your cover you asked, "Is this any way to run an election?" [Nov. 27]. My answer is yes. It's exactly how to run an election--without violence or the threat of violence and in a civilized manner that should be the envy of the world. BRUCE STARK New York City...