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The cover story repeats the shopworn criticism that Microsoft is evil because its second-rate software crushes better programs.
It's the myth of Sisyphus played for laughs: When the rock rolls back down the hill, it crushes that poor bastard's toes.
"These crushes do get big, but it's what we do ," says Susan Zirinsky, executive producer for Campaign '96 at CBS News (and model for the Holly Hunter character in Broadcast News ). "Very infrequently do you miss a major shot if you're a network crew.
It crushes the heart of someone who knows Japan a little and loves it a lot to see technicians and workers from the Tokaimura plant come out of the building infected by the out-of-control chain reaction, bowing and apologizing for their betrayal of their company, like the soldiers abandoned on Pacific islands for 30 years who asked the emperor's pardon for having lost the war."
Cusack plays the funny kid from a broken home who crushes on the A-student valedictorian played by Ione Skye.