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...conservative country. Father Charles Coughlin, a firecracker Catholic priest who pounded a broadcast pulpit from Detroit, built a virtual congregation in just four years. For tens of millions of Depression-era believers, his Shrine of the Little Flower was a beacon of hope--until an embarrassed church pulled the plug. And though there was plenty of anti-Semitism, isolationism and fear mongering in Coughlin's speeches, there was little irony: even as he used all this blessed new technology, he damned the capitalist economy that produced...
This year the Crimson needed to find another electrical outlet to plug into. They already had the talent, loads of talent, all the way through their roster. But the team needed something else...
...spent on meetings and phone calls rather than thinking and planning. Bowles urged Clinton's schedulers to carve some undisturbed office time into his day. He made sure that the right people got to meetings and that they started and ended on time. And he worked assiduously to plug leaks, taking his yellow highlighter to anonymous quotes and confronting the suspects. "He was trying to enforce the rules of the game," says a White House aide. "You keep your mouth shut unless you're authorized to open it. The place became a lot tighter...
...buzz WENDY TAYLOR, PC Computing: "HP's Vectra is a solid machine with some of the best networking smarts available in a PC today. Plug it in, follow the instructions, and you've got your own small-office or home-office network--and you don't need a nerd...
...almost every American owns a TV--making the boob tube, at least theoretically, the ideal vehicle for bringing the Internet to a mass market. Now Palo Alto, California-based WebTV has teamed with Sony and Philips to roll out low-cost, Internet-TV browsing terminals that plug easily into television and phone lines. Then even the most byte-shy technophobe can surf the Net and enjoy the convenience of E-mail. ($329 to $349 [box] and $19.95 [monthly access]; WebTV and Sony or Philips...