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...like the old Chicago pol he is. But after a few minutes his face darkens, and the more notorious Rumsfeld emerges. Sitting at a briefing table, Major General Raymond Odierno, the 4th Infantry Division commander, is flashing a laser pointer back and forth from maps to charts to flat-screen displays when Rumsfeld abruptly cuts...
This dichotomy--between the buzz culture and the culture we actually consume--also created two kinds of celebrities: those we wanted to see on the screen or hear on the radio and those we just wanted to read about in Us or PEOPLE. Occasionally, the categories overlapped, as with Beyonce, who conquered the news racks and the CD racks. But in other cases--notably Ben and Jen and Gigli--fame and commercial fortune were, if anything, inversely proportional. And whereas 2002 gave us famous has-beens, like Ozzy Osbourne and Anna Nicole, 2003 was the year of famous never-weres...
...Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that a strength of the new nation was its abundance of space. Here, unlike in Europe, the citizens could be united when they needed to and be alone when they wanted to. In an older, more crowded America, we find that space virtually--inside a screen, a book, a set of headphones. This is our last frontier, and it goes on forever...
...year. How did I get from that to the way so many of us feel now--relief that it's over, emotionally spent after meeting our holiday-preparation deadlines? Maybe it is as simple as putting faith in an old story instead of the circulars that offer a flat-screen Christmas. Maybe it's just a door in our imagination that needs to be pried open again. I'll take the image of a snowy night, and children too excited to sleep, and the possibility that magical things can happen...
...burgeoning trends. Micro fashion lines, like Lefton's, are sprouting up all over as more and more young designers turn to the Web to showcase their wares while they wait to break into the big stores. They need only a website and the ability to design (or silk-screen). "My 'store' is literally under my desk," says Lefton, who is just starting to approach shops about carrying her goods...