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...networks' attitude toward Murdoch did not improve in May, when he enticed 12 stations owned by New World Communications Group to switch their affiliation to Fox. The bad blood came to a full boil a month ago, after NBC went to the FCC to accuse Fox of trying to improperly acquire six more stations and thus exceed the limit on the number a company may own. NBC also asked the commission to investigate whether Fox is violating the 25% limit on foreign ownership of a U.S. broadcast station. (Fox is owned by Murdoch's News Corp., an Australian company...
...Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they're talking about." If these parents spent their time supplementing their children's educations rather than substituting for it, he adds,"their children would be remarkably well...
...Watchtower." The "Standing on the Moon" that followed turned out to be the highlight of the show. Like "So Many Roads," "Standing" ended with Garcia repeating the chorus ("I'd rather be here with you" in this case) into a thrilling crescendo that brought the whole band to a boil and the crowd to a roar...
Weeks of simmering partisanship in the Senate came to a boil with the passage of President Clinton's crime bill by a vote of 61 to 38. The $30 billion measure provided funding for 100,000 more cops -- a centerpiece of Clinton's campaign. Most Republicans who voted against the bill opposed the ban on assault weapons and demanded a $5 billion cut in prevention programs, which they dismissed as pork. Senate majority leader George Mitchell prevailed by warning his colleagues that they risked going home in an election year without dealing with voters' No. 1 concern...
...after the House voted to block the omnibus crime bill from coming to the floor, Senator Phil Gramm was only too happy to boil down the larger meaning. "Winning is a habit," said the Texas Republican, who relishes Bill Clinton's weaknesses the way Hannibal Lecter liked a nice Chianti. "And so is losing." You don't have to tell that to the Democratic leadership, which was a trauma unit after the 225-to-210 defeat, in which 58 House Democrats jumped ship. Or to the White House officials who use terms like "devastating" to describe their loss...