Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tennis Partner (HarperCollins; 345 pages; $25) begins, it finds Verghese moving with his wife and two sons to El Paso, Texas, a frontera culture whose dusty glamour seduces this connoisseur of border crossings. But as he separates from his wife, Verghese begins to anchor himself more and more through his regular tennis games with a charismatic Australian medical student of his called David. Only slowly does he realize that his tennis coach, student and friend is, like many doctors (he informs us), caught in a cycle of drug dependency...
...Rating: [4 umbrellas] Byron Pitt no doubt realizes the drama and good sense in holding on to a large, sturdy oak. Take heart, Byron. In his early years, Dan Rather was sent on these missions. The sturdy anchor desk awaits...
...only at the last minute that Chinese officials announced that they would go along with the U.S. request to broadcast the session live--a significant concession to Clinton. The press conference ran 70 minutes, far longer than its allotted 30 minutes, leading the government-TV anchor to note dryly that "it seems communication needs time." After decades of tensions, China and America still seem to need all the time they...
KATIE COURIC NBC pays up to re-up Today anchor for four years. Holds her own against sex symbol Matt Lauer...
SUSAN MOLINARI Dumped by CBS after nine months as anchor. Pregnant again, maybe she can go back to politics...