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...White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand black kids get an education" but hardly utter "a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists..." He also took them to task for keeping so much wealth on their side of the wall, for building too few schools and too many jails...
...know that feeling you get when you walk into Blockbuster and there are racks and racks of videos but you can't seem to settle on a single one? Multiply that experience a couple thousand times, and you've got a fairly accurate picture of music on the Internet. A lot of musical acts are concerned about how they'll make money in the Age of the Download. But there's another question that merits attention--one of particular importance to consumers. With hundreds of thousands of songs floating around the Net, how does the ordinary fan sort...
BUSH: It was a death of a thousand cuts, and it took a thousand to defeat him. He couldn't get his base intact. And the cause of that was breaking the "read my lips" tax pledge...
Poetic justice, perhaps, that the home of reality fare like Alien Autopsy should end up in this semantic bind. Yet you can forgive American High (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) the creative phrasing: What is high school if not Survivor with diplomas? Besides, this reality series/teen show is a thousand times realer, factually and emotionally, than Big Brother and Dawson's Creek put together. That's partly because Cutler, who produced The War Room and directed A Perfect Candidate, let the kids film their own "video diaries" and partly because the show's MTV-meets-PBS kineticism captures the confused rush...
...problem is death by a thousand cuts. "Everybody takes out their knife and does surgery on some portion of the bill so you end up with everybody slashing at everything," grouses a senior State Department official. "How are we supposed to support democracy around the world if they keep cutting our democracy and development fund?" For example, money for peacekeeping operations in Kosovo and other trouble spots has been cut by a third. The Senate has slashed by 71 percent funds Clinton wanted to use to relieve Africa's crushing debt, which administration aides say is critical to fighting poverty...