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...California, is bogus. The 1973 case allows local communities to determine what is acceptable. Flynt argues that even in Cincinnati, Americans no longer find much of anything to be obscene. In a society where anything can be downloaded on the Internet, where Bernard Shaw uses the F word on CNN and where one of Jerry Springer's most popular returning guests is a porn star famous for having sex with 300 people in one day, what can possibly be obscene...
...Bravely into the breach steps Couch Potato. While CNN is mired in weather footage, CP wants to show you newshounds at their best: tenacious, principled, witty and attractive. We're all like that. Really. Don't believe it? Just watch His Girl Friday (1940). Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the ink-stained beauties in Howard Hawks' razor-witted screwballer about a newspaper editor who tries to bring his ex-wife back into the fold with a nutty crusade for justice-by-media (and by relentlessly belittling her new fiance). Not to be missed...
...honest one. No matter our class year, it's a blow to our egos when we see that Bill Clinton is speaking at Ball State, Bill Gates at Brandeis, Bill Cosby at Berkeley. We read the accounts of these speeches in The New York Times or see clips on CNN and ask, why not at Harvard? Given the extent to which we have been trained to expect only the best from Harvard--the most important professors, the biggest library system, the most famous name--it is all too easy to expect the best in terms of Commencement speakers...
...ESPN's preeminence in the TV sports biz -- or maybe just fair play -- that sent the White House to the other cable network, and not that horrific Gulf War II town hall that CNN hosted for the Cohen-Albright-Berger triumvirate this winter. In any case, the Prez himself will do the honors this time, with ESPN's Bob Ley moderating a panel that includes Jim Brown, University of Georgia AD Vince Dooley; Minnesota Vikings coach Dennis Green, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, ESPN analyst Joe Morgan, San Diego Padres chairman John Moores, San Francisco 49ers president Carmen Policy and Georgetown University...
...cinema and television, built highways and wired the world. Not to mention the peripherals these produced, such as sitcoms and cable channels, "800" numbers and Websites, shopping malls and leisure time, existentialism and modernism, Oprah and Imus. Initials spread like graffiti: NATO, IBM, ABM, UN, WPA, NBA, NFL, CIA, CNN, PLO, IPO, IRA, IMF, TGIF. And against all odds, we avoided blowing ourselves...