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...retains a disarming faith that musicals are still a vital art form that can move people and convey serious messages. "Ragtime, Show Boat and Parade are all strong indictments of racism and anti-Semitism," says Drabinsky. "I don't know of any other medium that can make that statement as indelibly powerful as musical theater. Certainly the film studios aren't doing it. They back away all the time." Drabinsky doesn't back away; Ragtime is the latest and best proof of that...
...venture is Microsoft's attempt to push its content beyond the computer literate and into the mass market. Two months ago, Gates paid $425 million for WebTV Networks, which makes set-top boxes that allow Internet surfing through TV sets. "Gates is really confirming that the Internet is a medium, not a technology," says Christopher Dixon, a media analyst at Paine Webber. "They have content and need distribution. The key is that Microsoft has accelerated the development of opportunities in line with its prior investments...
...seep through, and e-mail is sniffed as thoroughly as snail mail has been scoured since 1949. While a hardline approach may work for now in China, though, Beijing's leaders may find that building an electronic great wall around Hong Kong will be an impossible feat. The virtual medium looks like Hong Kong's most powerful protection for free speech, since whatever China may do to plug the holes in the new wall by tightening its grip on Hong Kong's 49 ISPs, the Internet by nature is virtually unpoliceable. If pressed, Hong Kong's controversial web sites...
...apparently inaccurate) report that Paula Jones saw a bald-eagle tattoo in Bill Clinton's crotch area. His brand of fast-and-loose journalism seems to work online, where getting it first often means more than getting it right. And why not? It's a fast-food medium, and increasingly savvy users are learning (thank you, Pierre Salinger) to take a fistful of salt with every byte...
...indecent material" over the Internet to minors a federal crime. The new policy, to be made public by President Clinton at an event on July 1 designed to promote Internet commerce, states that the existence of devices which allow parental monitoring of Internet use renders legislative regulation of the medium unneccessary, The New York Times reported. The Supreme Court is expected to rule within the next month on the so-called Communications Decency Act , but, mindful that it has served for months as the law's passionate defender both in the courts and on the presidential campaign trail, the White...