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...idea of switching to a PVR and all the extra technological challenges that sounds like it might entail. In truth, nothing could be easier than navigating TiVo's menus. All you really need to know how to use are the buttons market up, down, left, right and select. But computers have gotten such a bad rap with the technophobic, as slowing PC sales suggest, that a computer even in the guise of an easy-to-use consumer electronics product just will not fly off the Circuit City shelves...
...What surprised me was seeing that history, like the accumulated tomes of libraries, was not an obstacle to the free play of the present so much as an endless grab-bag of particular authority. And though problems can arise (when, for example, only a select few are allowed to grab), with history--as with knowledge, with books--a broad selection could only help the present construction of a fair case. Against the childhood idea of history as something to escape--whose weight and scope made innovation impossible--I was struck by the idea that change was an action, an artifact...
With the first pick of the 2002 draft, Houston will select Colby Donaldson, the runner-up from Survivor: The Australian Outback. When Roy Firestone sits down with Donaldson after the draft, Colby will respond, “Thank God I’m a Texan...
...never been a cop. It would be counterintuitive for any large enterprise, but it is dangerous in an organization in which people wear guns to work and have the power to put other people in jail. But the habit, shared by Presidents and cheered by the press, is to select an FBI director who knows virtually nothing about managing a 28,000-strong institution like the FBI--that secretive, hidebound clerisy. The last three FBI directors have been federal judges, wisemen trained to balance law enforcement with civil liberties. Judges are good at that, but they also spend most...
Council conservative Sterling P.A. Darling `01 said he expected SAC to select committee representatives with different ideologies...