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...proven guilty, you're still innocent." And as for President Clinton, he simply makes references to the "sex maniacs in Martha's Vineyard" and gets the obligatory laugh. Many of the jokes seem old, and it's entirely possible that Much Ado About Everything is a recycled mishmash of Mason's past shows. But he's still an engaging comedian (despite his limited focus and his tendency to speak at a whirlwind pace...
...news cycle or two. Clinton senior adviser Rahm Emanuel was hailing it as "a pleasant surprise" even as Vice President Al Gore was dismissing it as nothing more than "a bill of goods." And it got just enough criticism from the insurance industry, which called it "a mishmash of cobbled-together ideas that are guaranteed to raise consumers' costs, reduce choice and generate more federal bureaucracy," to sound credible with everyone else. Still to come is a Senate plan...
...Mass. are allowed to sell on Sundays, while owners in its more northerly neighbor Essex are not, because a sliver of Ipswich stretches up within the ten mile zone. In response to the liquor store owners' complaints, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) has promised to review this mishmash of laws...
...very eclectic one as well, and one of the things that endears him to the Postmodernist temper is the way that traces of practically all the early 20th century movements, from Fauvism and Orphism to Cubism and even Surrealism, turn up in his work--not as a mishmash of quotes but as integrated elements. There's even a bow to Dada in a peculiar picture from 1930 in which the Mona Lisa shares billing with a can of sardines and a large bunch of keys...
...trying to cope with this mishmash of stimuli, people could react in two ways. They could throw up their hands and withdraw even further into their own interests. Or they could turn once again to traditional news outlets, which help put the chaos in some kind of intelligent order. Just how all this will play out--for our understanding of the world around us, for our sense of community, and for the future of journalistic enterprises like the one you're reading--will be one of the big stories of the next decade. It might even make the evening news...