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...astronaut Dick Swigert won the first election in the brand-new Sixth District, but died before taking office. Schaefer was appointed to finish the term and has never looked back. Denver is home to cable giants like TCI, and he has worked to protect their interests. He's also committed to reduced federal spending--in 1994 he proposed freezing cost-of-living adjustments every other year to help cut costs--and is favored to return to Washington...
...NEW YORK: Right now, if you happen to live in the largest U.S. media market, about the only way you can see the brand-new, much-ballyhooed 24-hour Fox cable news channel is by standing outside the company's Sixth Avenue studios in midtown Manhattan and looking through the windows. After being frozen out of the New York market, Fox parent company News Corp. filed suit Wednesday to force Time Warner Cable to carry the fledgling network there. Fox argues that Time Warner, under an arrangement with the FTC specifying that it would carry another cable news channel besides...
...prospect of three brand-new Star Wars movies that has Hollywood's studios salivating. The leading contenders appear to be Fox and Disney, although Steven Spielberg hopes he can prevail upon his old friend Lucas--the two made the Indiana Jones movies together--to give a big bang to Spielberg's new company, DreamWorks. Sources close to Lucas doubt he'll slip his babies into the untested DreamWorks distribution pipeline. A Fox executive adds that Lucas has a keen sense of competition with Spielberg and is eager for the original Star Wars to pass Jurassic Park at the box office...
...These brand-new plagues are scary enough. But, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, "the reality is, we're facing problems greater than Ebola. We have untreatable infections in our hospitals here in the U.S. right now. Food-borne illness has become one of the fastest-growing community-health problems. We know another flu pandemic is coming. To me, these things are of much more concern than something terrible from the jungle...
...insisted to TIME last week that his departure from the campaign is final. Dole strategists are betting it isn't. "If they don't bring anyone else in, that means he's still running things," says a hopeful-sounding Republican. "And when that gets out, the Morris affair gets brand-new legs...