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Most prominently, three of the fall's highest-profile new series--CBS's The Agency, ABC's Alias and Fox's 24--are about CIA agents, and they'll be hard pressed to avoid opening wounds while staying plausible. A month ago, the talk about 24 was its gimmick of taking one season to show one day's events. Now it's about a too-close-for-comfort scene in the pilot, in which an assassin (out to kill a presidential candidate) blows up an airplane in flight. The explosion will be cut, but, says co-creator Robert Cochran...
...won’t hear about it from everyone on campus. Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University, was a guest commentator on ABC News after George W. Bush announced his plan to Congress on the evening of Sept. 20. Peter Jennings asked her to explain how Bush’s uncompromising rhetoric of war would play in the scented groves of academia. Simmons acknowledged that some students were upset by the thought of war, but then she too ascribed these uncertainties to youth, inexperience and possibly fear. She couldn’t bring herself to say that the protesters might...
Lutnick would normally have been at his desk on the 105th floor at that hour. But on Tuesday he dropped off his five-year-old son for the first day of kindergarten--"big-boy school," as Lutnick, in tears, described it last week on ABC News. He arrived at the Trade Center to see it in flames...
...September 11, 2001, there was no sports news. If you turned on SportsCenter, ESPN directed you to the ABC feed of the terrorist attacks...
...time being, these actions make sense, not only in the name of good taste, but as a way to partially alleviate the emotional, psychological and spiritual turmoil being experienced by so many Americans. ABC executives made the correct decision in cancelling last Saturday’s scheduled airing of The Peacemaker, the 1998 film which depicts George Clooney and Nicole Kidman working to prevent a nuclear attack on New York City’s United Nations building. Likewise, Sony Pictures acted wisely in pulling previews of its upcoming Spiderman. The cartoonish preview concludes with the superhero snaring an enemy helicopter...