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Another unusual source: the unemployment office. In an adventurous experiment, the states of Massachusetts and Washington are letting the jobless use their unemployment benefits as startup capital. Instead of paying the participants the usual biweekly unemployment checks for six months, Washington State gives them one lump sum. In its Self...
A great deal of the criticism of CNN from outside the U.S. seems to be rooted in general resentment of U.S. power and influence. The network is often labeled as the latest example of U.S. cultural imperialism. Longtime French TV news correspondent Christine Ockrent calls CNN "a U.S. channel with...
But use of military force would have doomed Gorbachev's reforms and any hope for democracy. To be democratic, the republics had to gain their freedom. And now that they are independent, they are also free to re-create the institutions they believe they need to coordinate defense and economic...
The Metropolitan Opera, goes the old line, is New York City's second Met museum. It's an acrid joke, deriding the opera house's conservative repertory, its emphasis on Verdi, Puccini and Wagner standards. Where, the critics ask, is innovation? What about experiment? But the hard truth is that...
That emotion is what makes Play by Play: A History of Sports Television, a two-part HBO special, the most exhilarating documentary of the year. The old clips are irresistible and surprisingly fresh. In the very first sports telecast, a 1939 college baseball game between Columbia and Princeton, viewers couldn...