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Mr. Boo Klist

Hollywood 1, Critics 0

Mr. Boo Klist — liking audio books nearly as much as printed ones — now wants to recommend a new movie that’s gotten ho-hum reviews, Kevin Costner’s Swing Vote. Even the critics I like get stuck on the probability of its premise, that a presidential election through odd circumstances depends on a single vote, in […]

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Technical Difficulties

Don’t Stop the Presses

Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock I’m not nearly old enough to say I’ve seen it all, or even seen a lot. But when I worked there, my college newspaper, The Stanford Daily, had a noisy Teletype for AP and UPI stories, complete with increasing numbers of bells to rate degrees of breaking news. My first […]