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...feel like programs, to hold viewers even when a bad song comes on. On 12 Angry Viewers, young people are asked to review videos on the merits of their visual style, although, despite repeated instructions, they can't seem to keep from talking about the music instead. On MTV Probe, kids are taped, cinema verite-style, expounding about what videos mean to their lives. In one 35-second segment, a guy explains to his friend, "You can do anything to music. You can have sex. Drive a car. It's like when I fail a test at school: I come...
Leon Jaroff was off base in criticizing President Clinton's veto of the Clementine II program that would target an asteroid with a space probe [VIEWPOINT, Oct. 27]. The veto had nothing to do with asteroid indifference and everything to do with the fundamental weaknesses of the program. Clementine II is a thinly disguised version of the discredited "Brilliant Pebbles" missile-defense program of the 1980s, which posed major technical and treaty-compliance problems. The Air Force in 1997 did not want in its budget this Son of Brilliant Pebbles, masquerading as an asteroid-research program. Vetoing Clementine...
Nobody will be surprised if Attorney General JANET RENO decides against naming an independent counsel to probe telephone fund raising by President CLINTON and Vice President AL GORE. The 1883 statute against soliciting funds on federal property has never been tested in a telephone-solicitation case, and Justice pros don't want to start now. But Justice insiders are astonished at the number of leaks that have sprung, far ahead of the Dec. 2 decision deadline, disclosing that Reno's staff and the FBI want to shut down the case. Some officials suspect that the leaks are trial balloons aimed...
...world's most feared monopolist, your ruthless predations the subject of a Justice Department probe. So what do you do to get away from it all? Get a cool haircut and party down amongst your fellow geeks. At last week's Comdex, the computer industry's annual Las Vegas hoedown, Wild BILL GATES was feeling the groove at the Harley-Davidson Club on the Strip, dancing with the commoners until the wee hours. To see for yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique...
...Though she officially has until December 2 to decide, Reno is said to be about to close the matter before Thanksgiving, opting also to drop a probe into whether former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary solicited a charitable contribution from a lobbyist in return for a meeting...