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...Monday, the small town of Franklin, New Jersey (pop. 5,000), had become an Alfred Hitchcock crime scene, with two suspects arrested for murders so pointless that their inexplicability was virtually a cinematic device. The vacuum absorbed the attention not only of Sussex County's stunned residents but also of big-city papers and network television. thrill killer, screamed the tabloid New York Daily News over one suspect's photo. victims lured to a remote spot and slain, echoed a rare top-item crime story in the august New York Times...
...Black--are out to pasture. To Reed, who last week announced his resignation as executive director of the Christian Coalition, this adds up to what he describes as a "strategic void." The 35-year-old Christian operator is not forsaking God for Mammon, but is seeking to fill that vacuum and lead the religious right to the promised land of real electoral power. Yes, Reed built the coalition into a prominent faction within the party, but as a nonprofit advocacy group, it was barred from out-of-the-closet electioneering. It also proved frustratingly ineffective in influencing postelection governance. Reed...
...videobooks be far behind? To promote her latest novel, Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood starred in a video intended for distribution to book clubs, which are hot these days and getting hotter. Moving into the social vacuum created by the decline of Tupperware parties while appealing to some of the same higher yearnings as 12 Step groups, book clubs are invading homes, apartments and even TV studios. It's ironic. Oprah Winfrey, the woman once charged with debasing American culture through years of tacky psychodramas, has become, in a flash, the torchbearer of literacy, promoting such solidly challenging fare as Toni...
...this maneuvering in the party and government stratosphere is fascinating to the experts but at the same time feels anachronistic, even eerie. One of the world's last communist dictatorships is remaking itself in a vacuum while surrounded by 1.2 billion people. The great mass of Chinese feel more and more distant from rule of the party, by the party and for the party. They do not think of themselves as full citizens, much less as participants in their own society. Until the government establishes institutions with more legitimacy, with some voice for the people, it will be permanently unstable...
...only pray in these circumstances that the subcontractor in charge of the cabin was not also entrusted with engine maintenance. As for the crucial issue of when to go up and when to go down: we read of air-traffic-control computers so antique that they still run on vacuum tubes, and monitored, in most cases, by underpaid caffeine addicts working double shifts to pay off their therapists and divorce lawyers...