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This media sanitization may just reflect skittish news producers, but it obviously also serves—intentionally, or not—certain political ends. Just think back to the Bush Administration’s refusal to allow the media to air video footage of the flag draped coffins as they return from Iraq. Their justification: publicizing the anonymous images would violate the privacy of the victims’ families. Privacy? Come on, that’s so pre 9-11. Someone needs to tell these guys about the Patriot...
...armies of security personnel in every conceivable catastrophic scenario, from poison-gas attacks to hijacked civilian airliners. "All we do," commented one local commander, "is think the unthinkable." Since last week's blasts, Greek authorities have beefed up security at potential targets, especially diplomatic missions. This will hardly reassure skittish Olympic teams. While none has pulled out of the Games, many are ratcheting up their own precautions. Australia received assurances that its athletes would be placed under armed guard, and said it would have planes ready to divert to Athens for quick evacuation if necessary. The American team will likely...
ALANIS MORISSETTE Though they bleeped a similar obscenity in 1995, skittish radio stations wanted Morissette to remove a word from her single. She changed it to "nightmare...
...slash prices to fill berths. Add in the facts that the QM2 is making her maiden voyage at a time when terrorists can punch a hole in a U.S. destroyer with a rubber raft full of explosives (as they did to the U.S.S. Cole in 2000), Americans are still skittish about foreign travel, and a traveler can fly between London and New York City in six hours for $300--one has to wonder if there will be enough customers to make the same journey in six days, at prices starting at $1,499 and heading north...
...politicians. He is bold; he projects confidence and strength--the latter a quality not often found in Democrats. He is willing, obviously, to tell audiences some unpleasant truths. He is also gloriously free of the rhetorical, demographic and intellectual shackles that come with political consultants, pollsters and the other skittish, spineless purveyors of the conventional wisdom. He not only speaks plain English, he speaks unafraid English. Consequently, he has reopened the Democratic Party--formerly a political nursing home--to idealistic young people. His position on the most important issue, the war in Iraq, still makes sense: there was no immediate...