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  Technobabble

  Monday morning, I almost became a brand. When a speaker failed to show for the "Cross Media Marketing" panel of last week's bustling Silicon Alley Conference '98, Jason Calacanis--the organizer, human router, and networker nonpareil of the event--pul...

  by Austin Bunn on March 10, 1998

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  The Eye of the Beholder

  About a dozen protesters paraded past the New York Stock Exchange last Friday morning urging brokers to ''sell Barnes & Noble stock.'' They were following up on indictments against the nation's largest bookseller handed down last week in Alabama and ...

  by Richard Goldstein on March 10, 1998

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  Too Deep for Anger - To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something

  Some mornings I think, there's nothing left to say about race or being Black that any literate person should find novel, profound, or even vaguely amusing. For this century it's all been said and said again, said better, and even said better by me. I...

  by Greg Tate on March 3, 1998

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  Machine Age

  First the Barbie Liberation Organization was awarded $3000 after swapping the electronic voice boxes in some hundred GI Joe and Barbie dolls so that the GI Joe figures mewed, "I love school--don't you?" and Barbie barked, "Dead men tell no lies!" Lat...

  by Austin Bunn on March 3, 1998

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  How Did Flight 800 Blow Up

  When Dean Seward and his girlfriend Susan Smith set out for an afternoon at Gilgo State Park a couple of summers ago, they were looking forward to a day at the beach--sunbathing, tossing a Frisbee, strolling in the sand. The midafternoon appearance o...

  by Robert Davey on March 3, 1998

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  Trial by Fire

  How do you get in people's faces from a flat screen? The directors of Franklin Furnace, the 21-year-old performance space in Tribeca created to "make the world safe for avant-garde art," have never had to worry about breaking the fourth wall--it's th...

  by Austin Bunn on February 24, 1998

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  No Mort Tomorrows

  After less than six months, cartoonist Tom Tomorrow has lost his biweekly gig at U.S. News & World Report. Tomorrow's departure does not stem from a conflict with U.S. News editor James Fallows. "I love his work," Fallows told the Voice, expressing "...

  by James Ledbetter on February 24, 1998

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  Shopping Spies - Why is this Man Staring at Me?

  Andy Greenfield, president of Greenfield Marketing Consultants, is setting the scene for me: "You're standing at the salad bar, Carrie, so I sidle up next to you. You're looking at the chicken and broccoli, then you look on, and I mumble something li...

  on February 24, 1998

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  Walk this Way - Pols put you in the Driver's Seat

  What's a crime fighter to do after he wipes out most of the crime in the city? Well, he could sit back and rest on his laurels--go around giving speeches about how he single-handedly wiped out crime. OK, OK, say he managed that every day--there would...

  by Linda Stasi on February 24, 1998

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  Star Search

  Tim Nye, CEO of Silicon Alley company Sunshine Digital, stars in a Microsoft TV spot. A Razorfish "implementation specialist" hawks footwear in a new Rockport Ad. And in an industry built on the bedlam of tiny design companies competing for work, New...

  by Austin Bunn on February 17, 1998

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  How To Commit a Loving Murder - 'Euthanize the Damaged People'

  In 1993, 12-year-old Tracy Latimer was murdered by her father on their farm in Saskatchewan, western Canada. Tracy had a severe case of cerebral palsy and suffered acute pain because of a chronic displaced hip. She could not walk or feed herself. She...

  by Nat Hentoff on February 17, 1998

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  Paying Lip Service - An oral history

  Bill Clinton is the first president caught in a scandal apparently because of a predilection for oral sex (although an earlier president was brought down by a Deep Throat). Clinton is probably not, however, the first president who enjoyed it. Accord...

  by James Ledbetter on February 10, 1998

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  Sadistic Disc

  Forget trying to adjust the volume--the techno beat blaring out of your computer speaker is entirely out of your control. Clicking adamantly won't stop the strobing images of bestiality, animal experimentation, and defecation (yep, live) that pulse a...

  by Austin Bunn on February 10, 1998

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  Dressing Down ABC

  If you're looking for a case of journalistic excess to help explain public fury over the reporting of the Clinton sex scandal, there's none better than the tale of ABC News and the amazing disappearing semen dress. As everyone knows, ABC News is th...

  by James Ledbetter on February 10, 1998

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  Hands-On Prez - The Devil Made Them Do It

  It's the oldest story ever told: Poor innocent Adam lost his rib, his heart, and literally the whole world to a no-good apple tart who was rotten to the core. And upstanding world leaders (like Bill on the Hill) have been helpless before (pick one) t...

  by Linda Stasi on February 10, 1998

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  Hillary on Elba - From the sublime to the ridiculous with HRC

  Are you wearing a wire? [HRC's nervous laugh lasts quite some time.] That's just my little joke--I mean, of course you are. We know the rules. So long as Bill, Vernon, and I stay on the island, we can't be extradited. But every visitor from the Unite...

  by Tom Carson on February 3, 1998

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  The Lewinsky Affair - Whose story is it anyway?

  The media coverage of the alleged sexual affair between Bill Clinton and a former White House intern is enough to bloat even the most avowed news junkies. The glut of press conferences, prepared statements, interviews, videotapes, and photos of Clint...

  by Anita Hill on February 3, 1998

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  Drudge Match

  For a few days, the Clinton sex scandal overwhelmed even Matt Drudge. During the entire weekend, America's speediest gossip columnist did not update his now-famous Web site (www.drudgereport.com), credited by many as the crowbar that forced Newsweek ...

  by James Ledbetter on February 3, 1998

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  Impeachment Fiends - Congress's 'mean caucus' targets the president

  WASHINGTON--The real arbiters of President Clinton's future may not be Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr, the various pundits and busybodies, or even the American public. The real power in the Capitol lies with the Republican leadership in Congress. And...

  by James Ridgeway on February 3, 1998

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  Gigglegate and Gomorrah

  When all this was just about Paula Jones, I was already worried that it was a very bad idea to allow a sitting president to be sued privately. As a matter of cost-benefit analysis, there is simply too much at stake to allow private civil disputes to ...

  by Patricia J. Williams on February 3, 1998