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...Nashville Network may avoid the identity problem that plagued the Entertainment Channel. Says Analyst Mike Dann: "It is as specialized as a news channel, a weather channel or a financial channel." Its theme is the world according to country. Its 18 hours of daily programming boast a cornucopia of country culture: 30 minutes of live music a night on Nashville After Hours; 1-40 Paradise, a country comedy set in a Tennessee truck stop; Dancin' U.S.A. (watch rhinestone cowboys do the "Cotton-Eyed Joe"); Fandango, a quiz program testing contestants on their knowledge of country trivia. Unlike MTV, which...
...contest shapes up as a classic offense-vs-defense battle. The regular season champs have scoring power in a trio of ever dangerous forwards. Gates Orlando Paul Guay and Kurt Kleinendorst, while the Saints boast defense men Steve Smith and Kent Carlson who are both sizable and skilled Presidency can respond with Randy Velishek. ECAC Player of the Year on defense, but the Larries have the edge in goal with senior Gray Weiker...
Princeton's early acceptances compose a select group. The 350 admits boast mean SAT verbal and math scores of 688 and 724, respectively, and include 99 valedictorians among their number...
Tennessee Banking Magnate Jake Butcher, 46, used to boast that he rose from rural poverty to wealth and political influence the honest way, by borrowing money. Trouble was, as chief executive of the five banks in his United American Group, Butcher liked to lend money too, and too freely. Among the favored borrowers: Democratic politicians and the bank's directors and their relatives...
Condé Nast officials insisted when announcing the revival: "You will not find a more handsome, readable magazine in America." That boast prompted high, perhaps unreachable, expectations. The first issue is certainly lavish (290 glossy pages) and diverse. To accompany an entire short novel by Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, the magazine bought rights to a dozen new paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared...