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...Media baron Rupert Murdoch won akey battle to hold onto his Fox television networkwhen the Federal Communications Commission today allowed him to retain his eight TV station licenses. Murdoch had been accused of concealing the fact that his Australia-based News Corp. owned 99 percent of Fox when he sought permission a decade ago to acquire stations that formed the backbone of the network. To hold onto his victory, he'll still have to make a case that waiving foreign ownership restrictions would be in the public interest. Though the FCC found that Murdoch waited years to disclose the extent...
DIED. MARY CAPERTON BINGHAM, 90, philanthropist; in Louisville, Kentucky. Moments after acknowledging a Rotary dinner toast by saying, "The best thing would be for a big pink cloud to come down and take me away," Bingham collapsed from a heart attack. She was the widow of media baron Barry Bingham; his death in 1988 was preceded by a family-rending money spat among their children...
...well as Hugh McWearie, reappear from Davies' last novel, Murther and Walking Spirits; old Dunstan Ramsey steps out of The Deptford Trilogy for rather a lengthy visit, joined as well by his friend Boy Stanton (referred to in passing and not named, though the description matches the sugar baron), and we visit Salterton, site of Davies' first trilogy...
...self-reliance boom surely contributes to the growing intolerance toward those deemed overly dependent. ``I see people buying food with food stamps, and they're buying better stuff than I am,'' gripes Chicagoan Vicky Baron. ``I mean, they've got all their steaks just lined up!'' The revolt against the disadvantaged, ranging from calls for welfare reform to the backlash against illegal immigrants, has emerged as a national policy prescription. Will self-reliance turn mean? Will it lift America's spirits? Pessimists abound. Mario Cuomo, New York's ousted Governor, predicts that voters will keep reversing themselves: ``Unless the mood...
...evening's tour de force is Act II of Tosca, with a lavishly bejeweled Galupe-Borszkh in the title role and the Hungarian baritone ``Fodor Szedan'' as her nemesis, Baron Scarpia. A much-brandished leg joint of a roast pig, a servant with an infectious body twitch and the wicked baron's narcolepsy (which becomes most pronounced during the heroine's stupendous singing of the work's signature aria Vissi d'arte) all figure heavily in a send-up that shatters every cliche in the trunk. Opera buffs can delight in spotting references to great, legitimate performances--from Tosca...