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...alternative to incarceration. Not allowed to leave his home, and subject to round-the-clock surveillance by a battery of 16 cameras webcasting to computers around the globe, 26-year-old Dallas resident DotComGuy (known as Mitch Maddox before he changed his name) has turned himself into a sort of wired groundhog, vowing to spend an entire year ordering everything he needs to live, from food to furniture, over the Internet. Like a switched-on Thoreau at a virtual Walden Pond, he devised the stunt to teach mankind that the age of e-commerce is here--and that...
...decision to hold back was made by Bradley, who felt that responding too harshly in debates would alienate his supporters. In part, he was in a box. He'd set himself up as a better sort of politician, and the few times he slipped from his perch--clumsily attacking Gore for a 15-year-old pro-tobacco vote or claiming that Gore introduced Willie Horton to the world during the 1988 Democratic primaries--Bradley was roundly criticized. (That he chose to attack Gore on two of his Administration's strongest issues--tobacco and race--was just another sign of Bradley...
...This sort of weather has the tendency to bring out the worst in people. Especially for people who have to drive to work--like exam proctors--snow and ice are leading causes of cantankerousness and general irritability. For most television news stations, though, snowstorms are great: They're the perfect chance to try out new disaster-themed jingles. Too bad for me I'm at a newspaper. The Boston Herald won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for its coverage of the famous blizzard of 1978, but I don't know how to take pictures...
Well, finally he is, and the brilliant, smoldering Voodoo (Cheeba/Virgin) is due in stores next week. Now you're waiting for the man himself. And waiting. And waiting. You make a mental note: Make some sort of reference in lead of D'Angelo profile to Waiting for Godot. Ten minutes later you make another mental note: Only pretentious journalists who aren't really very well read lead stories off with references to Beckett. Put Beckett reference in second paragraph...
...technology to plant "signs" at ballgames. But shouldn't news shows (even ones with Martha Stewart segments) stick to, um, reality? Other networks turned down the technology. "People should know what they're looking at," says Tom Goldstein, dean of Columbia University's journalism school. "I think some sort of disclosure or disclaimer would be appropriate." Even Rather regrets the New Year's Eve sleight of hand. "There was no ethical consideration at the time," he says. "I now know this was a mistake." But CBS News president Andrew Heyward stands behind the technology. While the Times Square incident...