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...Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman was looking to completely destroy his opponent, millionaire cable executive Ned Lamont, in their debate Thursday night, it didn't happen. It was clear from the start of the debate, which was broadcast nationally on C-SPAN and MSNBC, that Lieberman was not taking the genial, low-voltage approach of his debate in 2000 against Dick Cheney, his opponent in the Vice Presidential race. Lieberman attacked Lamont nonstop, calling him a "one-issue" candidate who was only focused on opposing the Iraq war, charging that Lamont had flip-flopped on whether the U.S. should withdraw troops...
...much as a man can be who regularly refers to himself in the third person--modest. By one objective measure, he is TV's most successful host ever: he holds the Guinness record for most hours on camera (15,188, and counting). When the aliens who have monitored our broadcast signals invade, they will demand to negotiate the terms of our surrender with Regis. Now the producers of American Idol are hoping he will do for their new Ed Sullivanesque variety competition (one auditioner balances a 300-lb. oven on his face) what he did for another retro summer show...
...asked the International Olympic Committee to take the extraordinary step of scheduling the swimming finals in the morning in Beijing - which, since the city is 12 hours ahead of East Coast time, would position them ideally for a live U.S. broadcast. In a letter sent earlier this week to IOC President Dr. Jacques Rogge and obtained by TIME, Kerry Stokes, chairman of Australia's Seven Network, voiced strong objections...
Shirley Ann Jackson, who received a Doctor of Laws degree, is touted as a possible successor to outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, who departs Harvard after only five years in office. Joining her in the ceremony was famed broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer, who also delivered the keynote Commencement address...
Following Summers, reputed broadcast journalist Jim C. Lehrer mounted the podium as “the single freshest Harvard graduate” after having received an honorary degree from the University earlier...