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Zhou said much of the uproar over Chinese human-rights violations has been overblown and that the country's record has improved significantly in the last few years...
...black reporters, including myself, quickly discovered how difficult it was to hold the middle ground. Some of my colleagues say white editors chastised them for insisting that Webb's series, while overblown, raised disturbing questions that needed investigation. At the same time, some African Americans pressured black reporters to forget their qualms and swallow the series whole hog. A lot of us were vilified on black talk-radio shows for arguing that the wild speculations of conspiracy theorists like Dick Gregory deserve no more credence than the CIA's self-serving denials...
That particular anxiety, though, may be overblown--and heightened by the scare tactics of some attorneys advertising expensive disabilities-law training seminars for business owners. The wave of publicity surrounding the guidelines may certainly give people new ideas about suing, and there will always be the occasional surprising decision. Two years ago, for instance, a severely depressed attorney who worked for the San Francisco utility Pacific Gas & Electric asked for shorter work weeks and a transfer to a more understanding supervisor. According to the employee's lawyer, he filed suit when the company refused, and talks broke down over...
...millennium is itself well on the way to becoming played out. For those of us who are neither waiting around for aliens nor gearing up for a fire fight with the new world order, the big rollover is shaping up as the Super Bowl of infrequent calendrical events: overblown and unsatisfying in equal proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th...
...Talk of a comeback is overblown," says a chary White House aide, but there's no doubt the patented Dick Morris patter is seeping its way into Clinton II, the Sequel. Aides to communications director Don Baer have taken dictation from Morris as he suggested language for a presidential press conference. He calls other senior aides to promote ideas based on national polls he pays for himself. His former chief aide, Tom Freedman, just joined the White House Domestic Policy Council to do for it what he did for Morris: scour the country for promising ideas to turn into federal...