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...Lucy with Midler as both Lucy and Ricky but without the innovation of its forebears. That said, it has the ingredients of a much better show. The writing is sometimes sophisticated, but spotty. Here, there's a wry, if insider-y, one-liner: a weary Midler looks in the mirror and moans, "I look like the last 20 minutes of For the Boys," her 1991 drama about USO performers. Then there's a gay-flight-attendant cliche, surprisingly lame on a show from a longtime gay-community icon...
...Republican National Committee, whose ads are coordinated with the team in Austin. Even mock anti-Bush ads have been tested to see where the candidate is most vulnerable. Last week Castellanos and a bevy of R.N.C. officials sipped beer while they watched from behind a one-way mirror as 30 Virginians registered on dial-a-meters their reactions to ads attacking Gore's positions. The ads could hit the airwaves this week...
Steven S. Wallace, the chief network architect for Indiana University, said most efforts to block Napster would not work if students connected to "mirror" servers other than the central Napster server...
...time being, companies will suffer. Consider the plight of British media company Trinity Mirror, which publishes the Daily Mirror and other newspapers and owns the Internet service provider ic24.com. The IOC has sued in the U.S. for control over several site names Mirror New Media had registered, such as icolympics.com and iseeolympics.com, for its coverage of these and future Games. "We want people to be able to go direct to our coverage of the Olympics," said Jill Playle, the firm's marketing director. The company used iceuro2000.com for its coverage of the Euro 2000 soccer competition without any problems...
...would allow responsible organizations to license them. "This would give us more editorial control of anyone who claims association with the Olympics. People are easily fooled." In fact, the result has been to reduce consumer choice. Because the case would have been fought in a U.S. court, Trinity Mirror decided that it was not worth contesting. As a result the company will not be creating a special Olympics site but will carry Olympic news only as part of its general sports coverage. And there are broader implications. The fact that companies have been quicker off the mark should...