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...similar fix, Long's modern-day counterparts would convene focus groups to test various excuses. (The likely winner: "When I made that campaign promise, I had a serious substance-abuse problem, but now I'm leading my class at a nationally ranked recovery clinic.") Then a top speechwriter would embellish the confession, and a media consultant would orchestrate the requisite appearance on Geraldo. But all this high-priced talent could not alter reality -- a broken campaign promise is still a breach of trust. Lies are still lies. The trick is knowing how to recognize them...
...know Candice Bergen, the actress who plays Murphy -- and the worst person for the Vice President to pick a fight with. An admired woman, as articulate as she is opinionated. And (we're all tired of hearing this) classically beautiful. A modern-day Norman Rockwell might choose her face to represent traditional American values: clarity, intelligence, drive. Radiant normality. Most of all, privilege...
...These days, as notorious gentlemen from Rob Lowe to Clarence Thomas have proved, every scandal is a career move. Indiscretions that movie stars once paid to suppress they now discuss on Oprah and Arsenio; those modern-day analysts' couches have become celebrities' thrones. Allen the filmmaker can use this publicity; his recent movies have been flops. (An industry axiom: everybody knows Woody Allen, but nobody goes to his movies.) It is even likely that the brouhaha will boost Husbands and Wives at the box office, at least until people decide whether they like it or not. For Farrow the actress...
...title of Bill Buford's first book is disturbingly apt. The ancient Hindu practitioners of thuggee strangled their victims amid much ritual and in so doing attained a state of religious ecstasy. Surprisingly little direct killing occurs at the hands of Buford's modern-day thugs -- the soccer hooligans of Britain who consecrate their Saturdays to violence. But their battles are ritualistic in their choreographed precision, and the effects on the participants are mind bending as the adrenaline pumps, the fists fly and the boots drive into the sides and skulls of the fallen. "They talk about the crack...
Four years and $70 million in the making, the Globex system is a bid by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade to keep from losing yet another homegrown industry: futures trading. U.S. exchanges developed modern-day futures, including popular contracts based on Treasury bonds and the Eurodollar. By the late 1980s, however, copycat exchanges from Auckland to Zurich were able to establish their own futures markets by trading when Chicago was closed for the day. Last year the U.S. share of the worldwide futures business had slipped to about 50%, compared with more than...