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...Globe's ineptitude in handling its columnists and their sins, real or imagined, reminds me of the vicious incompetence of the novice Clinton White House in dealing with its candidates for attorney general. First, there was Zoe Baird, with her untaxed-nanny problem. The Clintons showed her the door and brought in Judge Kimba Wood for an audition. Wood did have similar domestic help, but unlike Baird, had meticulously followed the law in paying taxes. The difference between Baird and Wood was the difference between a person who disobeyed the law and one who obeyed it. In other words, there...
...enough that he arrived to address the group Monday just as one of the other guys, George W. Bush (who won't be there), is riding high in the polls. Clinton was taking vicious pre-address potshots Monday from all the men and women who would be Bush's veep - for being disloyal to the group he swears he loves so well...
...storied tradition of reality-TV rejects dates back to Puck, whose roommates kicked him off the third "Real World," but with the success of "Survivor" and the arrival Wednesday night of its claustrophobic real-time sibling, "Big Brother," the vicious side of voyeurism is starting to shine through. Exposing your life (and blurred private parts - thank you, Insensitive Naked Man Richard) to the glare of a million water-cooler pundits is one thing. Being publicly branded as unworthy is another...
...mood is less brave than bleak on the moor of Tweedy's farm, in the mid-'50s. Mrs. Tweedy, the vicious camp commandant (voiced by Miranda Richardson), and her slow-witted, henpecked husband (Tony Haygarth) have shown her prisoners what happens to a hen who hasn't laid eggs: it becomes a chicken with its head cut off. This fowl existence is driving even Ginger (Julia Sawalha, known to U.S. viewers as young Saffy on the Brit-import sitcom Absolutely Fabulous) close to desperation. Then, out of the sky, a savior drops with a thud. He is Rocky Roads (Gibson...
Constant technological revolution makes planning difficult, and a society that stops planning for the future is likely to become a brittle society. It could experience violent economic swings. It could trip into wars fought with vicious new weapons. Its pervasive new technologies could fail in massive or horrible ways. Or persistent, nagging small failures could sap the whole enterprise...