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...virtual American family has suffered a real death. The feelings will be--and already are--peculiarly complicated. When I first heard the news on CNN, I suffered a momentary mental lag, an instant of ontological puzzlement: Had a human being been slain, or a sitcom character? How was Dr. Huxtable--Bill Cosby, rather--going to handle this one? How would he break such searing news to Phyllicia Rashad, his TV wife, and how could the tragedy ever be resolved in under 30 minutes...
...Microsoft has mainly treated content as something that its software managers can create from scratch. But given the relative cheapness of some media stocks compared with that of Microsoft, Gates may someday look for some big acquisitions (he was in serious talks about taking a $2 billion stake in CNN before Time Warner merged with Turner Communications), and Buffett would be a useful partner...
...Christopher liked his diplomacy buttoned down and hushed up. The new team has to do much better at persuading an indifferent, otherwise-engaged American public to support risky adventures abroad. That is a role Albright has long auditioned for from the U.N.; she'll step in as the CNN Secretary of State that Christopher never wanted to be. She is the master of the sound bite, explaining complex issues in 10-second phrases that lunch-pail Americans can understand. She became famous for searing one-liners against dictators like Saddam Hussein and corrupt Haitian generals. "You can leave voluntarily...
...first U.S. ambassador to the U.N. to have her own Website, Albright understands communication to the point that she calls CNN "the 16th member of the Security Council." She also understands politics well enough to have so charmed Senate Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Jesse Helms that he was among the first to applaud her appointment. And she understands the world like a refugee, a multilingual, multicultural warrior for human rights and democratic principles. "At last," says a former diplomat in the Reagan and Bush State Departments, borrowing from Albright's well-known diatribe against Castro last year, "we have...
...what you can produce that gets you the job," said the CNN correspondent. "That and some luck...