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...Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could be." By the end of her razor- edged narrative, Smith has cut her subject down to where he would have trouble filling a 12-in. screen...
Workers whose jobs are cyclical, seasonal or subject to the whims of the market feel vulnerable even without receiving a pink slip. Some benefits, like health insurance, may be tied to the number of hours logged, and so, in a slowdown, workers suddenly find themselves without coverage. Mayo Gonzales, a 57-year-old carpenter in Ontario, Calif., did not amass the 250 hours he needed this year to keep his benefits. "At my age -- at any age -- it's very important to have insurance because anything can happen," he says. "This is one of the worst slowdowns I have seen...
Bush's more moderate advisers, already queasy about Bennett's approach, argued inside the White House that the President's image would suffer. "This is a powder keg," said an official privately. "Somebody is going to read racism into every word you say on this subject. You don't want to do this." While the racial card appeals to some blue-collar and rural whites, it obviously offends many blacks. It also conflicts with the two-year effort by Bush and the departing G.O.P. chairman, Lee Atwater, to woo black voters. Further, the moderate faction agrees with political scientist Larry...
Scientists will point out that almost every one of the program's premises is subject to debate, from its assumption that life must be based on carbon (rather than, say, silicon) to its noticeable bias against nuclear energy. The program also assumes that technology always advances and that intelligence always confers an evolutionary advantage. "We may be flattering ourselves," says the program's designer, Will Wright...
...long will the American cultural hegemony last? "I think we are living in a quasi-Hellenistic period," says Chilean philosopher Claudio Veliz, a visiting professor of cultural history at Boston University, who is writing a book on the subject...