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...tendency to trim the edges, smudge the details, grasp at qualifiers and embrace technicalities. But what if Gore has to face the straight-shooting McCain in the fall? Since Gore linked up with that Clinton fellow, labeled "an unusually good liar" by Senator Bob Kerrey, the Veep's grip on reality has, shall we say, loosened. You can see the wheels turning. Sure, honesty is the best policy. What's the second best policy? He saw the potential of the Internet early, but invent it? He and Tipper the models for Love Story? A bit of a stretch. And even...
...commune life degenerates into a nightmare reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge...
...Putin to former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet - who conducted free-market economic reforms under an iron-fisted political regime - and even to Yuri Andropov, the former KGB chief who ruled the Soviet Union in the early '80s and pressed for modernization of the economy while maintaining an authoritarian grip on society and a competitive relationship with the West. Putin appears to have made the right noises on economics and arms control, but stood firm on Chechnya and against U.S. efforts to renegotiate the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty...
...this doesn't diminish Microsoft's grip on the Web. "We're not going to go out and buy magazines or other traditional content things," Gates told the WEF crowd. "Instead, I think there's room for a company whose main goal is to create software and allow that software to be a very empowering tool." By keeping its management energies narrowly focused on software, Microsoft could continue its dominance in the operating system and web software markets. In any case, Microsoft's management style, a delicate balance between top-heavy control of product content and maverick innovation...
Knight is good. Maybe too good. The U.S. is deep in the grip of a flu outbreak. It happens every year, but we keep hearing this one is different. Emergency rooms are jammed to overflowing. Offices are decimated. The I've-been-hit-by-a-dump-truck feeling that is one of the hallmarks of influenza seems to be lasting longer than it ever has before...