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Malone believed that all along, which is why he never moved TCI out of the cable business and why, when the company sought to make its subscriber base more manageable, it traded subscribers for minority stakes in other cable companies.
In the tradition of screenplay guru Robert McKee, the stakes in every act are ratcheted up.
Obviously, a president's ambition, judgment, temperament, integrity, and ways of relating with other people (among other psychological qualities) bear greatly on how he will govern--at least as greatly as whatever election-year stands he stakes out on "the issues" of policy.
But there was something about it that was sooooo compelling--there was so much drama, the stakes were so high, there were so many incredible ups-and-downs--that I was hooked.
But if it fails, the stakes are enormous.