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I have seen the death of the recording industry: its name is MP3. Now, I should admit that my death notices have been notoriously premature. At various times in my crystal-ball-gazing career, I have predicted that the Internet would knock dead newspapers, magazines, TV, the U.S. political system...
As proof, Leigh refers to the Drake equation, a mathematical equation written by Dr. Frank Drake, President of the SETI Institute, which calculates the potential number of communicative intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.
Judging by its current usage, closure appears to be to justice something like what NutraSweet is to sugar: a modern substitute with all the taste but none of the troubling calories. A term from psychology, not law, closure refers to a general sense of emotional completion about a matter, not...
Miraculously fluid and well-shaped, the narrative unspools like a wavering dream. Reality, for Ricci, is a blurred photograph torn at the edges (as is the title--you can finish the book without knowing whom "she" refers to, let alone where she has gone). Heavy with the pressure of the...
The real news last week was that Tina Brown, editor of the New Yorker, had stopped the media world dead in its tracks with the announcement that she would be quitting the most prestigious job in magazines for a promising but also somewhat vague-sounding enterprise. Whatever its actual merits...