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...THINK MANY AMERICANS ARE fooled by the Republicans' phony populism [COVER, Feb. 26]. The newly discovered proworker, anticorporate stance of Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole, as well as also-ran Lamar Alexander, is antithetical to the policies each has supported for decades. Americans want to merge the mottoes "Republicans want what works" and "Democrats want what is fair." F.D.R. gave America the New Deal; Truman followed with the Fair Deal; Reagan and Bush gave us special deals for the wealthy and secret deals with arms-for-hostages. The American people are tired of deals. Americans want a guiding principle that...
...entertainment empire that would create movies, records and other "software" for Sony's hardware: TV sets, vcrs and gadgets of the future. He started slowly at first by acquiring CBS Records for $2 billion in 1987. The real spree began in 1989 when Schulhof paid $3.4 billion for perennial also-ran Columbia and its sister TriStar studios. He immediately spent some $800 million more to recruit Batman producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber, who had never headed a major film company, to run the acquisitions. Next, Schulhof popped for a $175 million make-over of Columbia's movie...
...single goal can mean the difference between winning a championship and being an also-ran. A single moment, a split-second reaction or a brief shift in momentum can determine who walks away with their heads held high. And it is in these situations that a team shows its true character, a character often reflective of its captain...
...anyone can challenge Penn's two-year dominance of the Ivy League, it's Brown. No longer an Ivy League also-ran, coach Mark Whipple has needed just one season to turn the Bears into a legitimate contender...
Soap operas continue to have large and devoted followings, as was fully in evidence at last Friday's televised Daytime Emmy Awards from New York City, where General Hospital won its third statuette for best drama and Susan Lucci, the soap world's perennial also-ran, failed to win a Best Actress award for the 15th time. The soaps remain extremely profitable for the networks too, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. But lower ratings mean fewer potential advertising dollars and a general sense of corporate unease. Procter & Gamble, which owns three network soap operas...