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...designers of the ballot and the designers of a cheap and inaccurate punch-card system. Need I even mention that we are in the 21st Century? Is the best system for reading the will of the people truly an ugly fusion of ancient paper technologies, a blunt metal mini-club held over from our pre-sentient days roaming the planes of Africa, and poorly controlled, circa 1970's computer ballot reading machines...
...that human messiness that is captured in CBS's excellent and disturbing Simpson mini-series American Tragedy (CBS, Nov. 12 and 15, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on a book by Lawrence Schiller and former TIME correspondent James Willwerth, with a script by Norman Mailer--and contested in court by O.J., who tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie...
...starting to lose my temper. All I know is that the next person who tries to kiss up, I'm going to set on fire... Wasn't Citystep surreal? But by the time you got your bearings and had a chance to hook up in the mini subway car exhibit, the damn thing was over. Too short, too many 50-buck hair styles (I'm applying for UC grant to start an Anti-Tendril Association), wayyyy too many freshmen... One of my friends spotted a poster for the College Democrats reading "What Would Harry Potter Do? Vote for Al Gore...
...This mini-manifesto gives you a good idea of the life mission Wolfe has given himself, in terms of proselytizing, and in terms of both his fiction and nonfiction efforts. But whatever the merits of Wolfe's arguments on the future of the arts in America, his work is ready for immediate consumption and judgment. Wolfe's first and best strength is his power of critical (and cynical) observation. He has set himself up as the ever-omniscient observer, surveying the scenery at the end of one so-called American century and the beginning of another, pointing out society...
...ground, dual-levered radio transmitter in hand, 500 ft. below the aerobatics. Meet George Messetler, 80, the diminutive, elegant "grandfather" of the Rockland County Radio Control Flyers. Each week Messetler and other like-minded aviators in his 130-member model-plane flying club meet on a field and fly mini-airplanes they have constructed. They console one another when they crash. They grill burgers, give one another unsolicited aviation advice, show off for their wives and, if the wind is right...