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...last spring--taking the show's rapid-fire, talking-while-walking voice with him--many thought that Wing, already sinking in the ratings, was doomed. But the ratings have firmed, and in some ways the show is better. Producer John Wells, now heading up the writers' team, kept the core of Sorkin's show but toned down the piety. The heroes are more self-doubting and fallible, and their adversaries more human. Last year President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) ran for re-election against a Republican so dim and loutish no one could have voted for him unless tricked...
...Federal Government is nipping at the problem elsewhere. Hard-core technophiles get queasy at the notion of Congress creating laws that tell them how to do their arcane jobs. Yet three of the most significant laws of the past 10 years--the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley financial-modernization law (1999) and last year's Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform act--all have mandates to protect and secure data. Still needed, Geer argued, are laws that hold companies liable for holes in their security that make us vulnerable to attacks from elsewhere. Responsibility for passive...
...products, is calling on teens like Prickett to peddle Mark, a new line targeted at women ages 16 to 24. Remarkably, it's the first time in Avon's 117-year history that the $6 billion company has launched a major youth movement. Until now, the cosmetics giant's core customer has been 35 or older. "We want to capture a younger customer, bring in new reps and create a new global youth brand," says Deborah I. Fine, president of Avon Future, the division that's launching Mark...
...Hard core punk is like a pet rotweiller: it’s cool, no one wants to mess with you, shouldn’t let young children near...
...Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, Greider insists that there is no question of the widespread discontent among American employees; instead, as Grieder explained in an interview while in Cambridge promoting his book, “the question is whether people today have the sort of core courage and dedication to take on the big boys and stay with it as long as it takes; I think they...