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...also antique in its fidelity to the original CBS news creed: smart, crisp and hold the bullshit. Nowhere else on the network, and few places on any other, are the verities of Golden Age TV journalism upheld with such light poise, perhaps because nowhere else do the staffers so frequently consult, and replay, that glorious past. On the anniversary episode last month, a clip was shown of Edward R. Murrow, in 1951, instructing his director (Don Hewitt! - everyone was young once) to hook up the first ?live? coast-to-coast broadcast link, between WCBS in New York and KPIX...
...Weld's fate in that race also provides an object lesson for other opponents. The debates were that rare thing--two smart guys, quick on their feet, actually talking about the issues without so much as a moderator. Weld seemed to think he could win on charm; Kerry proved to be extremely deft about how he took his affable opponent down because anything too personal, too nasty could easily backfire. At one point Weld challenged Kerry for coddling criminals by producing the mother of a slain Springfield cop and asking him to "tell her why the life...
That's why Republicans who have watched Kerry up close warn that Bush shouldn't consider him a liberal lightweight who can be boxed up and buried. "That's a prescription for disaster in November," says Nebraska Republican Chuck Hagel. "He is a seasoned, smart, tough, articulate campaigner who has a pretty strong record to offer the American people. And that's the way [Republicans] better take...
...smaller companies were smart and lucky. Newmarket, unencumbered by the MPAA embargo, sent Academy members screeners of Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...
...invisibility" touchstone for high tech is itself quickly becoming obsolete. The stuff coming out of government and corporate R.-and-D. labs is designed to be invisible from the start: "smart dust" distributed in the wind that instantly forms a scattered monitoring network, computer systems that manage computer systems, micro spy cameras designed to look like insects...