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...baseball stadiums and in university lecture halls--the New Man and New Woman of Japan walk and sit with head down, arm extended and one thumb feverishly tapping buttons on a new kind of cell phone, one that lets you surf the Web using a technology called i-mode...
...voices I channel from others in our sick society). He rapped a number purporting to be made up of menacing messages from a nutcase fan, working in counterpoint with Elton John, a benevolent marshmallow in a clown suit, still exhaling faux poetics in the "Candle in the Wind" mode. Watching Eminem's body English, I thought of the Japanese expression henna gaijin, which means something like "crazy foreigner," and is used to refer to a Westerner who speaks the difficult Japanese language disconcertingly well. The white boy Eminem must seem henna gaijin to American blacks. He's nearly mastered...
...some trouble easing into the teaching mode, especially since the first class in which they had me lecture was Ethical Problems in Mass Media. I even struggled through the classes on magazine journalism. Many of the students seemed obsessed with things like "reporting" and "facts" and "writing about other people." I tried to put an end to that kind of outmoded thinking. "No one recognizes those two Watergate reporters," I told them, "but I think we can all picture Andy Rooney...
...Knicks in six, and the Blazers winning the NBA title over the Sixers in six. But seeing as I'm not a betting man, I'm just going to pop in the NBA Live 2001 CD on my computer and try to rebuild the Chicago Bulls myself through franchise mode. Improving on that 20-percent winning percentage shouldn't be too tough...
Many companies have gone into advanced penny-pinching mode to avoid cuts or further cuts, something they haven't had to do in a decade. "The New Economy makes human capital the most important asset, yet paradoxically companies are finding they can't afford the fixed cost of large payrolls in turbulent times," says former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, author of The Future of Success (Knopf...