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Your report on George W. Bush's presidential campaign, "Bush Bears Down" [NATION, Jan. 24], politely downplayed a suspicion many voters have about the Texas Governor's ability to think for himself. A President must be able to decide independently what course of action to take when issues are complex. Is Bush up to this? Your article does not answer these questions. DAVID ALTSCHULER Orlando...
...sneaking suspicion that I would be the only girl in the Fleet Center who blow-dried her hair before she went to see steroid-filled men pretend to mortally wound one another wearing uni-suits at WWF's Smackdown!. I even contemplated leaving it wet, but my vanity, and the idea that one of these wrestlers might be cute, got the better of me. So I blow-dried my hair, put on the most non-descript outfit I could think of, and headed to the Fleet Center armed with my mace and two days of beginner Tae Bo videos...
...world of Internet hacking, as in the world of rap music, there is the old school, and then there are the insurgents. The former tends to view the latter with some suspicion, and perhaps a bit of jealousy. Such was the case Wednesday; establishment hackers are up in arms over the media attention paid to Monday and Tuesday's attacks on Yahoo, eBay, CNN and Buy.com. "We find that there are already ample words in the English language to describe such miscreants and call upon the media to define them by their actions, as they are all we know them...
Increasing suspicion of dirty political dealings surrounding the E.U.'s actions also cannot be ignored. European political analysts have openly suspected that President Klestil encouraged members of the E.U. to threaten sanctions out of the hope that Freedom Party/People's Party coalition would break apart, giving his own Social-Democratic Party another shot at gaining power. These suspicions are bolstered by the E.U.'s own hypocrisy in that several of the member nations that have loudly denounced maintaining diplomatic relations with Austria so long as the Freedom Party shares power nonetheless maintain political and economic ties with brutally dictatorial countries...
Postmodernism and microchips have brought us to this: grown people arguing over the reality of digital billboards vs. paper-and-paste ones. But such tricks, like digital retouching in print magazines, do feed public suspicion. What, viewers may rightly wonder, is to keep newscasts from digitally jazzing up video, to make explosions or protests, say, more dramatic? "When you have new technology like this," says Rather, "it's going to raise new issues." And that...