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...asked, "Is The New Economy Dead?" [BUSINESS, Oct. 23]. Hardly. It just took a while for the dictum of the old economy to assert itself: a business is supposed to provide a product or service for a profit. Technical savvy and a dotcom tag are no substitutes for a sound business plan. I work for an information-technology company that has never lost money and has fueled growth through its own earnings. You should look at enterprises like ours instead of snickering at those whose overinflated financial balloons have been pricked by reality. Imagine, a profitable dotcom! ALEX LEKAS Fayetteville...
...better or worse, each of these shows, like Roseanne, recognizes Philip Larkin's dictum: "They f___ you up, your mum and dad." They show families whose parents and kids make real, lasting mistakes that can't be resolved in 22 minutes. (That's not to say they're wholly realistic. Gilmore's Lorelai, unlike most teen moms, has a safety net of wealthy parents...
...common thread in these shows is that for better or worse, each, like "Roseanne," recognizes Philip Larkin's dictum: "They f___ you up, your mum and dad." They show families whose parents and kids make real, lasting mistakes that can't be resolved in 22 minutes. That's not to say they're wholly realistic. "Gilmore"'s Lorelai, unlike most teen moms, has a safety net of wealthy parents, while even the hard-edged "Titus" tends to play dad's psychological cruelty as farce. (As for "Normal," suffice it to say, John Goodman sings "Zing! Went the Strings...
...continue to subscribe to William F. Buckley Jr.'s famous dictum: "I would rather be governed by the first three million five hundred thousand codfish in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University...
...broke scant months after The View's launch, that confirmed the show's moment had arrived. Suddenly the country was talking about oral sex, semen and adultery in homes and offices. This talk led to hand wringing about "the coarsening of the culture," but it also illustrated the feminist dictum that the personal is political. It demonstrated--just as working women's juggling of job and home life does--that sloppy private matters can't be neatly divorced from public life. From 24-hour news to Politically Incorrect, groups of people arguing took root as the dominant mode of infotainment...