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Shrewd buyers point out that price tags always indicate the excellence of porcelain (and of cloisonne ware, too).
The program thought it could do this by a) making us watch Pepsi-sponsored movies featuring anti-drug propaganda and shrewd product placement; b) reinforcing the most obnoxious cliques on campus by choosing all the "All Star" officers from a popular group of athletes and cheerleaders (on average, B and C students who drank, smoked, and skipped class); c) doing everything possible to conceal the fact that high school's purpose is education; and d) giving us the opportunity to buy as much "All Star" merchandise as our parents could afford.
) So, Lewis' account of the wild and uncannily shrewd Jim Clark is among other things a terrific introduction to the ongoing revolution in information technology, to its transformation of the U.S. economy, and to the gold-rush combination of optimism and insanity in the current marketplace for Internet ideas.
Bauer, by contrast, was a shrewd and vicious opportunist.
It now comes with two or three mini-essays a week by William Saletan on the order of his "Frame Game" feature: shrewd analysis of how an issue is being framed by the contending interests and who is winning the frame game.