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Yeah, me neither, says the reader, presumably a Frank Sinatra fan, elsewise he or she would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...EASY READER It was just a matter of time before they invented a touch-screen handheld for kids. The C-Book Reader ($50) may actually help the little ones learn to read. The device, which will go on sale in early 2001, runs animated stories from cartridges. Among the first six titles are Disney's Winnie the Pooh and 101 Dalmatians. Kids can read the text, flip page by page along with the narration or watch a primitive animated version. For Mom and Dad's sake, the reader comes with a headphone jack...
...this does not happen, I'll leave an exercise to the reader. Find the online schedules of Hartford, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Boston College, Boston University, Brown, Princeton and Harvard. Now try to rank these teams fairly based solely on head-to-head results. Are you confused yet? Mission accomplished...
...Senator Moynihan, an article whose depth of thought and research is matched only by its extraordinary levels of personal attack. The quote above is representative: Perhaps the issue of legislation can be verified, but notes on the Senator's thoughts on his own behavior represent significant presumptions for a reader of any political leaning...
Clich: The integrity of the press depends on its keeping a clear line between editorial and factual content. Opinions, like this one, must be carefully labeled and set aside so that the reader may rest assured the rest is fact. Often, it is precisely the guise of unbiased reporting which skews the truth in problematic ways. Currently, though, the average American--watching 30 minutes of evening news each day--will have, as regards the candidates, little truth to skew...