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...taller order for a President than rescuing an auto industry. Cultural trends have a life span, and some of the Bush era's--reality TV, say, or terrorism dramas or slasher movies--may just be tired out. Bush didn't create them, but they helped set and capture a tone in the country after 9/11: wary, on edge, in your face...
...multiple channels of programming all at once. The switchover will also free up a lot of space on the overcrowded airwaves. Some of it will be used for an improved post--Sept. 11, post-Katrina emergency-broadcast system (yes, even better than those color bars and that weirdly aggravating tone). The rest of it went to the highest bidder: last year, in the biggest government auction of all time, rights to much of the 700-MHz spectrum--known to you and me as UHF channels 52 through 69--were sold off for an astounding $19 billion. Verizon...
Obama began his speech by continuing the bipartisan tone of his two and-a-half month transition, congratulating former President George W. Bush for “the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition...
...tone of the speech was not defiant or angry, or celebratory, for that matter. It was resolute, suffused with sobriety, reflecting a tough-minded realism at home and abroad. Obama made clear that his domestic liberalism would be enacted conservatively. Where government programs can help, he said, "we intend to move forward." If they are useless or outdated, "programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits and do our business in the light of day." Overseas, he warned, "those who seek to advance their...
...tone and style of his move to power, Obama has shown the world - and the people living in Sarah Palin's small-town America, and even many liberals who had lost hope over time - a new, gloriously unexpected and vibrant face of our country. The sheer fun of the Inauguration, the world-record number of interracial hugs and kisses, augurs a new heterodox cultural energy, a nation - as the man said - of mutts. Already the Obama ethos is slipping into the nation's cultural bloodstream - not just the interraciality but also the mind-blowing normality of the family: the fact...