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...that total is not rising this fall. Network executives insist they have no intention of taking advantage of the ad boom by increasing adtime, at least not in the short term, and advertisers despise clutter because they believe it damages the effectiveness of their messages. They're wise to worry, especially as increasing numbers of viewers find ways--everything from established ad-free cable channels like HBO to such sophisticated new digital recording devices as TiVo--to avoid commercials...
...literature "in trouble" because they've drifted away from what our genes would prefer to see and hear? Maybe. Yet as with any polemic, this one is delivered with more certainty than it merits. The book is hugely entertaining and highly informative. But readers would be wise to apply some skepticism, whether it's native or nurtured...
...DIED. RICHARD HARRIS, 72, hell-raising, Oscar-nominated Irish actor known to his generation for lead roles in This Sporting Life (1963) and Camelot (1967), and to younger audiences as Professor Albus Dumbledore, the wise old wizard in the Harry Potter series; in London. A notorious carousing buddy of Peter O'Toole and the late Richard Burton, Harris once described his face as "five miles of bad country road." He had just finished filming the second Harry Potter film...
This is about the fact that ministerial musings on foreign policy are not the word of God, plain and simple. The reverend is a good man, and sometimes a wise one. But he has no business preaching his politics as Gospel...
...broadly agreed, the breakdown has been over the terms of those inspections, and how to proceed if they're blocked, with the Russians and French leading a Security Council majority leery of being used simply to create a "trigger" mechanism for an invasion few Council members believe is a wise or prudent course of action. Indeed, the Administration may have erred by calling for an open debate on Iraq at the Security Council last week, because it created a platform for the overwhelming majority of UN member states to speak against invasion and challenge the U.S. position...