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Show ibune OPINION Monday, March 24. 1997 Biggest Puzzle With Internet? “S20. Tobacco Suit Gets at the Truth; Just Attempting to Define It a i ROBERT RENO : sean ouldn’t peddle smut or rae NEW YORK — Even the Solomonic powers of ithe U.S. Supreme Court seemedtested last Wednesday by thesimple question: Whatis the Internet” Morespecifically. the court was being Philadelphiahad already weighed imwith the description “a never-ending world. wide conversation” and “a kind of cha0s." And Deputy Solicitor General Seth P Waxman. speikine forthe government Wednesday. described an uncensoredIn. asked to decide what you ternet as compare the Internet to when trying to determine whether the government has the powerto “ a free pa s into the equivalent every adult bookstore and every adult eensor it under the Communications De- vency Act of 1996. This hard question because the Internet hasn't yet fully de fineditself andbecause most of the possibilities for doing evil on the Interne still onlytentatively being explored Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the In ternet is “very much like a telephone Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, looking through an entirely different set of binoculars, said it was * corner or. a'park.” And Justice Antonin Scalia said that if it wereastreet corner, you con ersuttion. a cam NOW, What's Left for Smokers? ked w mer i ‘We say. “Tough luck, you have to sel itén stores’ Scalia said Athree-judge federal appeals pane] in NEWSDAY chaos. a street corner. 2 an ore or, for that matter, two housewives yakking over a back fence, American Indians sending smoke signals to friends on neighboring peaks. a gaggle 10-vear-old boys telling dirty jokes at as ID se ; : suppose that if 16 ‘old ‘boys SPend too much time drooling over inde. 4 oo CIA? Wstke Finding out yourmext-door neighbor conducts the New Yor x Phil harmonicin his spare time. It's like seeing 'the gir] who used to sit behind you ir eo out ‘from ‘the cover ‘0 Vanit 7 Wins auutier Word Hordtmmmed? Forget it — stunnedwill do nicely ‘The ultimate staff guy" — that's what they're calling him now — andit makes perfect sense. fH — So there I was the morning just sitting at'the kitchen > minding everyone else's business— that’s why mewspapers were invented, eso — and Treading one more tale of Washington intrigue Anthony Lake. the president's pick for CIA director. was mad as hell and wasn't going to take it all. before he was sorting with drug dea @nnoying theneighbors, running with fas’ girls. drag racing or out getting killed ir the crossfire from 2 There is also drive-by ‘the possibility ute or incitement for s that imagine is going to be @ flop and that its im. _mense capacity for spreading drivel. tel} ing lies and perpetrating fraud will turt out 'to be the lar er threa’ Tenet. You could have When knocked me I knew him, he the time — on organi Capito Twas wor king Capito 8S ® stabier in yeHit, ill, | mean some of those ‘ommittee on Intelligence, after being 2 Before that, he was a staffer for Ser John Heinz of Pennsylvania, where he ard-working. Good sense of humo: Hite> alii Gemetiax * sunedttiin Tacit ootanie at another twenty-something. Paid coe. Bes ak ee so-fed be ‘running the CIA firet-readtion thie from twill isn’t ies ‘that iseetl itive dt tis Taree to entrap the ntury ruth. woritext. v -Sekrishc: ment: aS ar-ole ften acking mi that on ‘tc we b For instance, enon Tew : roads vant = ite o tar Pee eee ees a ents oh eof gasoline doubles pe ee “@5kS: Ought ‘Weigh an important question. Should the Jevy'on'the tobacco consumer ‘be made t quiry has got compensate andit was hardly a secret before Impossible? Not rea Let's just _ Getserious. Ivnever entered my'ming. And then left the Hill and never told. 4, we can avoid the obvious jokes. OK? met George Tenet before he had any of the jobs that are being mentioned ir the papers. He was already a staffer bu George PaPeT. Moving ur Surprised? Mavhe Ic Tenet In My and ve ‘morning That's ‘putting it ‘mild}y use a little intelligence 70 ate Ir means e be. one ‘th it is a But mobile “Bbsenee of paved @¢eut of theprotection:of the consumer” The healthiest begiming of any such:mto ‘be them got eenie MiSs Spout government ‘to passes they i eee i ae sos Pek ce Al ae ae oe te “ESC second perspective ‘on ‘the problem the he how See eae tas Wins Tf tiie Sik Ibe 2 PM POMEROY ae rdiess of gi giving ‘their itched lifelong habit. to end ir &TY 9! lung canee = nat add into’an expensive, self-destructive, ca Hine mronxens wih te tad the DOSE citizen who courts aleoholism lung cancer does not defray ‘the spectacle o: tohacco no eeinaeich to the se treatment The welfare Stite‘wailks iinito own am yy ch hy pledging to care for the sick irre addi tekes ‘memory Sane, sees was again: he'll DT mediptarthemdilingroeendioret if didn’t know him US chimera that the stuff expunge ly. “George on : OT Eee : ee ating ie the wicked witch coming into contact wit the matter another ‘thought — until just the other day, when suddenly ‘there he more like lines. se Naat yarns he niia argument in ‘the jon is tha Water my own work over the years has had _littletodowith intelligence (And iet'ssee knew him And now dso,‘ 4, me to wonder if-somewhere down the ine this suvsittir fromme might putt Nida evowremna ch Diditeverorcur aewess, ‘picture (1 think he used to have a mous one’s bound for slory’? ‘iga- an sa ‘That is the bigimiblicnews. The tobae- wasn't ‘Mr. Tenet. 44."'the way'the story fiadit. More like “Mr Tenet.26." Actuaiwell, and I didn’t know him long. But PRODUCT made But didldeversayto-mesélf onetwen- he public should Ihave I, of course, ‘knew absolutely ‘none ‘of ‘this. It's in the papersnow. alongwith his tache), is u {je seemed ‘to ‘be a ‘nice “uy. F : oe cancer-com: ine {heir word that tyye And. in another Staffer there himseli Wis Jae tes ciEaret es, thoush for how long no-one She medal fhe Borsa onesess mAn who was a major player on Girakianvit he pegs nem ccmemitine iW hich is ‘exactly where at jew " UTOUP &S wary S* egies and evices iby which the ‘tba CHIME as Cl Licuih acdc Co pie Veh eee Hadas company. or dressing i raised in ete security Knew the guy. lobbying") me : We had'meetings. George and land our Tespective bosses did. We compared Totes. 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In any event, asa sub- can'safely guess that the Internet \¢ companies © shooting Y°™Y Same tssues worked, among other things, on nationa Which, the story said. the ‘prez had done: He chose the actingdirector of cen- The bi; acting director and deputy director of (Was staff Wirector of the Senate Select BUCKLEY Reynolds central intelligence. he was senior dire tor for intelligence programs at the National Security Councii. Before that, he more. Findyourselfanothernominee, tral intelligence.some guy named George J. After aha WILLIAM F. Cencies on their families’ computers. i Might occur to their parents to tell them toStop. even tospank them. And if junior 8 an uncontrollable brat. they can ‘ai Ways. With relief. console'themselves'tha _h€ i not hanging out in @ poo! hall. con hoolyard recess, the bulletin board the Laundromat stretched to span the giobe. the bathroom walis ofa junior high school: there is no end to'the similarities youcancite or the difficulties, not tosay the impossibility, in effectively regulat- into the hands sent 1 of children. would the FB finutitisemn dows Chief Spook? Who Would Ever Have Guessed ]t? RICK HOROWITZ All The ‘truth must must know wenant whal do be tha that ‘the (plait ssettions. Andit the plaintiff that a age Henge‘before ‘the to that the for the smoker iy should it the drug St hidt served. ipubllic iis ‘te cost of physical dam bounda te ved wil Ing ‘the iplainti ‘that Liggett is pledged hy go pas’ the kind of pe se houn that Should ‘be ot The Tight ‘to smoke wan ‘be modi by imp ng the true Stof it to ‘th onstimer. 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