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...business is how many eyeballs look at our content," says Howard Tyner, editor of the Chicago Tribune. "If you look just at ink on paper, the number of eyeballs is going down. But to all the people thumping their breast about the end of the daily newspaper, I say, 'Phooey.'" He whips out plans for a $7 million renovation of the Tribune building that will bring the company's print, Internet and cable operations into close contact with one another. Nine companies, including Hearst, the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century...
...likes of Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian rebellion, Ms. Robison boldly asserts that the ends of creating the most tonally brilliant and resonant music possible are well worth the means of a little historical fibbing and instrumental miscegnation...
BOSNIA: Ultimatum? Phooey...
...long before we hear the annual anti-final club screeds by campus egalitarians. Why don't we spare ourselves yet another hearing of the standard pontifications about the value of equality and the inevitable echo about freedom of associations? Final Clubs, phooey. Think of these little dens of iniquity in our midst not as clubs, but concentration camps for nitwits...and be grateful...
...that with congressional elections coming up in November, the Republicans don't appear to have gained much advantage from any of Clinton's earlier problems. Asked which party could do a better job of handling the nation's problems, 40% said the Democrats, 30% the Republicans. (And 14% said phooey to both.) For the Democrats that number is about the same as it was two months before the 1992 election, but for the Republicans it's 5% lower...