Word: networked
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Putin's missteps during the Kursk affair--his silence and the fact that he stayed on vacation throughout the first week of the crisis--point to a disastrously weak staff and a total absence of feedback. Boris Yeltsin's Kremlin was usually surrounded by a network of former advisers or ministers who could always phone a key member of the Yeltsin staff or a family member and warn them when a policy was going badly wrong. Putin, who seems to trust only a tiny group of intimates, clearly does not have such a back channel...
...faced the strong objection of her mother, "who always imagined me getting married and having kids the normal way." Mom has come around, but since she lives in an assisted-living facility 90 miles away, she can't be much help. So Sara has organized an informal network of single moms in her area, who are on call to baby-sit in emergencies and who trade child-rearing tips...
...eager to glimpse the scary grownup, dressed all in black, who churned out monthly novels for creepy series called Goosebumps (aimed at readers 8 to 12) and Fear Street (10 to 14), which in turn led to scads of merchandising goodies, a hit kids' TV show on the Fox network and an exhibit at Disney World...
...first tenets of network TV is don't do anything that is faintly religious, and spirituality gets lumped into that," says Jeff Sagansky, CEO of Pax, a fledgling network specializing in spiritual, "family-oriented" programming like Twice in a Lifetime, in which departed souls get a second crack at life. Sagansky, who helped develop Touched and Highway to Heaven, remembers the cynical reactions: "One executive turned to me at a [Touched] screening and said, 'Fly, Dumbo...
Those attitudes may be weakening, if slowly. Another of Sagansky's pet projects, Mysterious Ways, had the strongest debut of a nonreality series this summer when it began a seven-week intro run on NBC, Pax's sister network (it starts on Pax Aug. 22, 8 p.m. E.T.). A drama about a duo (Adrian Pasdar and Rae Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced...