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...have been transformed entirely into made-for-TV spectacles, their prime-time coverage has actually declined. That's simply because the image-makers have systematically weeded out everything that might make them interesting as TV. Perhaps the conventions' best hope for clawing their way back to prime time may occur outside the halls - at the shadow events and street protests planned by elements ranging from major-party mavericks to Starbucks-trashing anarchists. At least those have the not-quite-scripted frisson of reality...
Previous failure does not predict a failed president. Previous success does not predict a successful president. That's part of the interest of a presidential election - the uncertainty about what transformations, good or bad, may occur in the winning candidate when he becomes president. Perhaps no transformation at all will come to pass. Chester A. Arthur will remain Chester A. Arthur, and there is nothing you can do about it. But beware. Lewinsky or no Lewinsky, the American presidency still inspires some reverence - an awe that may work in complex ways. Voters may put an apparent doofus in the White...
Ryan would not comment on compensatory damages, saying discussions still have to occur "attorney to attorney" before any public statement on an award or settlement can be made...
...wonder when it is going to occur to the bosses of the New York Times, which owns the Boston Globe, that it may be time for a change in management up there...
...every breakdown in negotiations, Arafat would speak of the possibility of a Palestinian "explosion." When politically convenient--as during the "days of rage" last May that left five dead--the explosion would occur, either allowed or encouraged by the Palestinian authorities...