Word: openly
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Back in January, the New York Times had editorialized that "there is little economic reason to fear the merger" as long as the parties kept their systems open. Last Friday, the paper saw fresh reason for concern: by "overriding the information and entertainment needs of millions of customers," the Times said, "Time Warner virtually compelled federal regulators to take a more searching look" at the merger...
...other children," she said. She meant it. This is classic educator thinking: rigidity and humorlessness put forward as policy. But this is Minnesota, where Appropriate Behavior rides high in the saddle and where you hear yourself, a pink person, referred to as "a person of noncolor," and you open the morning paper and find 10,000 words about why we should all appreciate racial and ethnic diversity. It's called civic journalism, and the tone is so gummy and patronizing, you can easily see why Minnesota elected a Governor who once earned his living screeching and frothing and exchanging perspiration...
That he has, and it allows him a second love, the open road. Near his home in Los Angeles is Sprewell Racing. It's a high-performance tire- and wheel-shop featuring lots of things that make you go zoom. "I drive all the time," he says. "I used to drive back and forth to school--to my junior college in Missouri, then from Alabama to Milwaukee. I've driven from California to Milwaukee by myself three times. I stop--sleep in the car for a couple of hours and then back on the road. I enjoy driving...
...lines between fiction and reality. They went to the White House to have their pictures taken with their real-life counterparts, stopped at the New York Times's Washington bureau, and Allison Janney, the 6-ft. actress who plays press secretary C.J. Cregg, stood on the podium to open Lockhart's midday briefing. The show even got a validating blast from Republican House leader Tom DeLay, who--while admitting he's never watched it--declared it displays "disdain for [religious] faith." A cheap shot, ripostes Sorkin, about a violence-free series that idealizes public service...
...infant and her mother. Matt, the baby's father and an internist at a Boston HMO, has two young sons from his first marriage, which has recently ended in divorce. Kate was not the cause of their parents' breakup, but the boys treat her with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. And then there is Matt himself, who had been her lover for only eight months when Kate became pregnant and saddled with responsibilities. They plan to marry in the June following their son's birth, but Kate occasionally wonders whether he will still want to--and why he would...