1.   But, if it was a day when information overload took a breather, for many it was a day when their routine took a real hit.

2.   Last November, conservative partisans celebrated the death of the left, but it was the Democratic middle that took the real hit.

3.   The Reagan administration took a real hit in the Iran-contra affair.

4.   Walter Isaacson, the editorial director of Time, Inc. and one-time managing editor of Time magazine, will take the reis of CNN.