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...work on the JFK assassination(s) notwithstanding. But the amateur sleuths ?- indeed, the entire societies of them that imagine the U.S. government to be far more insidious than incompetent ?- do not thrive on paranoia alone. They require scraps ?- gaps in the narrative, a hitch or two in the official version of things, plenty of questions unanswered, and, of course, a tragic ending, hopefully brought about by a showy use of government force. Waco has all of these, and a built-in audience: the antigovernment militia types who consider their inalienable rights to be under constant siege from the same government...
...started and couldn?t have been responsible. Guess what? Admission/denials like that don?t satisfy anyone (just ask George W. Bush), and the Waco conspiracy-theory factory, long dormant, was up and running again. TIME Justice correspondent Elaine Shannon says she has no reason to believe that the new version, in which the feds shot two pyrotechnic devices that bounced away harmlessly hours before the blaze started, is false. But for skeptics, the big question ?- why, after six years, are we just now hearing about this? ?- is irresistible...
...credibility," a suitably peeved Attorney General Janet Reno hurried to get the official ducks back in a row. "The important thing is to keep going until you get to the truth," she told reporters ?- and it?s apparently just as important that the next definitive version come out of her office. Reno and FBI chief Louis Freeh have ordered one of those famous "internal investigations" and promise fresh answers within only a few weeks. The conspiracy machine, naturally, isn?t waiting. James B. Francis, the chairman of the Texas Department of Public Safety, wants to know what the Army...
...bass lines--but in the end most of it seems to contain only small bits of what you originally set out to find. The best songs are driven by strong vocal performances that humanize the material. The rest make you feel as if you're imprisoned in a cheesy version of The Matrix...
TEMPTING TUNES RealNetworks is making it harder than ever to resist the allure of digital music. Last week it announced a $30 version of its popular RealJukebox music player and recorder (available at real.com) which lets people make exact digital replicas of songs from their CDs in the MP3 format, with no degradation of sound quality--an MP3 first. With a 10-band graphic equalizer, users can fine-tune playback; new "skins" (colorful covers) can also be superimposed on the user interface so it looks as spiffy as the music sounds...