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...course, the trick is to get those fans to come in the first place...
...George W. Bush will win the 04 Presidental election. The democrats will use every dirty trick and lie against the President they can. It will get UGLY! The American voter that knows America is the best place on earth and understands that we have such a gift of freedom will prove that the majority of voters still believe in President Bush come November. Sherry Pendley Nashville, Tenn...
...needs I had 45 years ago. But magazines, like people, mature and calcify - especially a magazine run by one man for its entire life. (When Hefner started the magazine, Stalin had just died, Castro was five years from power and rock ?n roll was still race music.) The trick of aging is not to try to sustain what we were when we were young, but to remember it, and not begrudge those adolescent or infantile dreams to the next generation...
Today we're all Zenodotuses. Each of us has access to more data than anybody has ever had before, but still the trick is to find what we want when we want it. Given the size of the Internet--estimates run around 500 billion documents and counting--that's no easy task. Internet surfers do about 550 million Web searches a day. Amass that many people anywhere doing anything and somebody is going to try to sell them something. The market for advertising to those Web searchers is worth about $2 billion, and it's growing at a rate...
...means can we avoid being complicit in its schemes? The questions are teased out expertly. Her dialogue is as sharp and spare as ever. But Barker may be too anxious not to frame the answers in obvious strokes. Her tale proceeds intriguingly, only to end by teaching us a trick we didn't come to learn: how to leave a large question simply hanging in the air. --By Richard Lacayo