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Televise a hearing today, and it ceases to be one. It becomes a chance to pillory your opponents, play-act morality and audition for your 15 minutes of cable fame. People not only choose sides, they also choose roles. Representative Bob Inglis, raw from his November loss to Senator Fritz Hollings, returned as the voice of the Lord, the Old Testament one. Representative Lindsey Graham's early turn as Hamlet turned out to be a search for an unoccupied spot on the opinion spectrum that might land him on Meet the Press. He found a "legal technicality" that allowed...
...right to these allegations. As you know, there are two kinds of FBI files: raw and refined. Raw files, which should be taken with a fresh acidic wine such as Muscadet or Sancerre, contain the most salacious and lewd rumors gleaned from the most untrustworthy and reprehensible scum on earth. Their original function was to provide amusing bedtime reading for J. Edgar Hoover (which is why he kept them in the bureau). Today they enable the FBI to keep U.S. crime statistics low by threatening to give the media the raw files of anyone even thinking about going...
Refined files I don't have the space to get into right now, but they mostly concern aesthetic offenses, and you're probably not cultivated or genteel enough to appreciate them anyway. Besides, the Sinatra files are all raw. Very raw...
Mobil, by dint of its huge cash flow, was always able to offer a steady stream of dividends, and Union Camp rewarded shareholders with a greater than 4% yield before the merger. But in a stock market mad for the kind of raw growth delivered by the likes of Cisco, Intel and America Online, both Mobil and Union Camp seemed like vestiges of a capitalist era past...
...outdone, Microsoft responded last month by releasing the beta (or final test draft) of its Internet Explorer 5.0. Normally, I wouldn't review beta software in this column since prerelease code can be buggy and raw. (IE 5 is supposed to be commercially released by March.) But I believe that this beta is stable enough--and interesting enough--to recommend to anyone who's comfortable around a PC. Note that comfortable means you've been a Web user for a while and don't require any Microsoft support...