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...newspaper clipping and putson his glasses. "At a grocers' convention,President Bush was amazed by the bar-code readersat the checkout counters. These readers have beenin use for over eleven years." Laughter. "Whatelse has Bush missed during his years inWashington? The Detroit Free Press said he lookedlike a `preppie Rip Van Winkle...
...Quantum Leap, these programs face demands that the nightly newscasts do not. A prime-time newsmagazine has no obligation to cover the "important" news; its goal is simply to win enough viewers to survive. Thus, these shows gravitate toward the same crowd-pleasing subjects: sex, crime, consumer rip-offs, health news, human-interest weepers. Important but more remote issues -- the budget deficit, education policy, the workings of Congress -- are either ignored or reduced to small-scale "people" stories. Only 60 Minutes pays much attention to foreign news...
...magazine has changed solely for the reason that in our new building, the magazine office no longer floods. We don't have to set mousetraps under the old layout tables and at our computer terminals; we no longer have chairs that rip our clothing...
KILLING IS A QUESTION of proximity. Before the war started last year, a Kuwaiti girl, identified only by the name Nayirah, testified before the House Human Rights Committee that she had seen Iraqi soldiers rip Kuwaiti babies out of incubators and throw them on the cold floor to die. It was a horrifying story, and according to 60 Minutes, President Bush quoted it at least 10 times as a reason...
...there be anything but contempt for politicians who decry the projected $365 billion federal deficit even as they pour more and more dollars into their pet programs? Is there a case for the Keating Five and the way those purblind Senators opened their doors to convicted savings and loan rip- off artist Charles Keating -- not to mention the purblind way in which the Senate ethics committee investigated the offense? Will anyone speak up for Senators and Representatives who run against Congress back home but who are all too eager to rejoin the club once they are safely back inside...