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...press may be overdoing it, but it's mostly the Senator's self-destructive behavior that's to blame. It began in the mid-'90s with David Chang, a Korean-American businessman who wanted help getting money that North Korea owed him. Chang has woven extravagant tales of giving cash, suits, antiques and watches to Torricelli in exchange for that help, but Chang is a dubious source. Currently serving time for witness tampering and illegal contributions to Torricelli's campaigns, he is prone to rants like accusing the fbi of planting evidence. In June prosecutors declined to pursue charges against...
Chances are you haven't read the Bush Administration's "National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace." Since it weighs in at a hefty 65 pages, who can blame you? Still, a surprising amount of the draft report is aimed at home-computer owners. Here's the gist: the more dependent we become on the Internet, the more damage can be done by taking down large portions of it. And it doesn't take a criminal genius to realize that PC users, with their increasingly high-speed connections and low-grade security setups, are the easiest on-ramp for any kind...
...much imitated whine rule the day. But Petty is still evolving as a writer, and The Last DJ contains his most interesting and confident material in a decade. As ever, there are small-time characters with big-time regrets, but whereas previous Petty protagonists had no one to blame but themselves, many of these losers are paralyzed by the grip of corporate culture. On Money Becomes King, he rasps, "If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale/About a time when everything wasn't up for sale," while on the title track he curses...
...only ambition. Ironically, PBS is hailing this as the production that brings it into the 21st century. More like the early 20th. As the Victorians taught us, daring is relative, and Forsyte is PBS's attempt to show a little ankle. But the network can only blame itself if it is not around to remake Forsyte again in 2035. --By James Poniewozik
...issue of who is really to blame for the split is also an engine in battles for the friends. "It is probably around divorce that spin control was developed," says Belove. "The players feel they need the story to be told a certain way, and they need people to buy their version of the story." When friends favor one spouse over the other, it is read as belief in that spouse's side of the story. The one with the most friends can believe he or she is less to blame for the marriage's failure...