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When Wired Ventures Inc. announced plans to go public last spring, it took the financial industry by surprise. Sure, the company's flagship Wired magazine was the bible of information-age intelligentsia, but that prestige came from its celebration of digital culture, not from a robust bottom line in its print and online ventures. Would Wired become the latest money-losing company to make good in the market? Apparently not. Last Friday, citing "adverse market conditions," the firm canceled its second attempt at an offering. Though the magazine and online ventures are expected to continue, the company will have...
...district was in Democrat hands for 20 years and Democrats think he's vulnerable, but Chabot is expected to keep his seat--thanks in part to Cincinnati's still robust economy...
...revamped series returned last week, it again stood out among the new crop of TV dramas. While too many of the others are either morally preachy Touched by an Angel clones or inept attempts at re-creating the X-Files, Murder One remains a fine legal thriller with a robust, well-observed appreciation for the egotists who are drawn into the web of splashy criminal trials. Newcomer Wyler is a prosecutor turned defense attorney who lives in a world ethically messier than his predecessor's. Wyler's father took bribes, he himself cuts deals with smarmy tabloid reporters...
...specific actions Clinton selected required more subtle calibration. He rejected more robust but riskier attacks on Baghdad installations or the invading Iraqi forces. The U.S. would strike, as Perry explained, on ground of its own choosing in the south. Washington would be able to expand its longer-term strategic advantage by taking control of a larger share of Iraq's airspace, a move that would also humiliate Saddam in front of his own military. Thus, the decisions to fire two volleys of high-tech, low-casualty cruise missiles against 15 air-defense sites south of Baghdad...
...keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...