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Wearing black leather and high-heeled boots, Angelina Jolie walks across her Beverly Hills hotel room toward me, holding a serrated knife in her hand. The alluring co-star of Girl, Interrupted has a lurid fascination with sharp metal objects--exotic daggers, tattoo needles, the works. She has even confessed to cutting her own skin in the past. But tonight she's in a more benign mood, so Jolie slinks past me and proceeds to carve up a steak delivered from room service...
...stick to, um, reality? Other networks turned down the technology. "People should know what they're looking at," says Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia University's journalism school. "I think some sort of disclosure or disclaimer would be appropriate." Even Rather regrets the New Year's Eve sleight of hand. "There was no ethical consideration at the time," he says. "I now know this was a mistake." But CBS News president Andrew Heyward stands behind the technology. While the Times Square incident was a "much closer call," he says, "the use on the Early program is completely appropriate--a whimsical...
...idea of government quietly taking a hand in shaping TV programs is also one of those slippery slopes. If Washington can offer financial incentives to work antidrug dialogue into Drew Carey, why not induce NYPD Blue to have Sipowicz plug gun control every time he plugs a suspect? Even worse, depending on who runs Congress, Buffy the Vampire Slayer could end up pro-life one season and pro-choice the next...
CUTS BOTH WAYS Don't count on science to hand you a clear-cut answer about whether to circumcise your child. The conclusions of a major 10-year study are, well, equivocal. The risk of a baby suffering a complication--excess bleeding or, worse, permanent damage to the penis--is 1 in 500. The odds are certainly low enough to deem the procedure safe, but may still be too high for some parents. The benefits are also persuasive: for every complication that occurs, six circumcised newborns are expected to avoid urinary-tract infections. Confused? Talk it over with your doctor...
...Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft owns a chunk of AT&T, which owns a chunk of Time Warner, which means that after the merger, Microsoft will own a chunk...