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...passed through a paradigm shift. Over the weekend, the President's man Karl Rove went to Hollywood to talk to producers about hearts and minds, and the propaganda reels that might be made--new stories, new heroes, new villains. It's not hard to imagine the movie treatments being hammered out on a thousand keyboards now: "It started as an ordinary September...
...scrambling [in the movie industry] has to do with, Is it gonna sell or not?" says Redford. "Moral concerns are overwhelmed by a larger concern, which is business. If this is a sustained mood in the country, then you'll see a reduction of violence. The business will shift to whatever sells...
Admittedly, this shift has been aided in no small measure by the events of Sept. 11, which have made America safe for serious rhetoric for the first time, perhaps, since the close of the Cold War. But still, it is to his credit that in a series of speeches, Summers has done something that the verbally-challenged Rudenstine never did—namely, discuss the moral responsibility that the University bears to the United States, which is (according to Summers) similar to those borne by any American citizen. In the cloistered and reflexively anti-American world of academe, these...
...Oversight will also shift, according to the new plan: A new agency will be created in the Transportation Department to supervise transportation security issues...
...hours leading up to July 8, 2000 were strange ones for me. I got a tattoo and a new pair of glasses, and after working a full eight-and-a-half-hour shift during the day, I voluntarily went back to work at 11:30 p.m. and stayed until well after midnight—all this to promote a book in a series that I had avoided since its inception...