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But as the recent return to center stage of cable pioneer John Malone, head of TCI, suggests, the cable industry has never been healthier, despite having committed a rather staggering array of strategic missteps in the past few years.
My radar readily picks up, even magnifies, his distortions and confusions, but is less sensitive to my own missteps.
Renfro offers up the "dead-eyed sang-froid only a 16-year-old suburbanite can pull off" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), and McKellen is called "a supremely gifted actor at the top of his form" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The film is said to be uneven, though, and when you add directorial missteps to the uncomfortable subject matter, the result is pans mixed with queasily laudatory reviews.
It's especially implausible that Brock "didn't remember" the payment when he had just finished writing what was supposed to be a confessional article detailing his own journalistic missteps in the service of the Clinton-haters--an article that included criticism of "the GOPAC moneyman" (Smith) for offering to give "legal expense" checks to the anti-Clinton troopers.
They attribute all Microsoft's missteps to Gates-bad PR, bad legal strategy, underestimation of the Internet-and infer that Gates must have been bad at everything Ballmer is good at: administration, finding new revenue sources, and avoiding bad investments.