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...Artist. He was famous in New York for the Mercury Theater (which he and Houseman started after leaving the WPA) and to the rest of the nation from radio--as the voice of the Shadow, or from the Mischief Night frenzy his The War of the Worlds broadcast stoked...
...Todd Whitman posed in a snowplow. Hoboken, New Jersey's, mayor, Anthony Russo, closed city streets to all but city residents, conjuring the image of a medieval city with the drawbridges up. Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Mark Schweiker confirmed the worst nightmare of the print press by declaring that broadcast journalists qualified as "essential workers" and could therefore drive the streets early in the storm, while newspaper employees could not. Schweiker also announced that Pennsylvania's 2,500-vehicle cleanup was "the largest civilian snow-removal fleet in the free world," an assertion that certainly plays better as a fleeting...
Somehow Americans lost such protections in broadcast media, where coarse language is strictly regulated. The bill would hold expression on the Net to the same standards of purity, using far harsher criminal sanctions--including jail terms--to enforce them. Moreover, it would attempt to impose those standards on every human who communicates electronically, whether in Memphis or Mongolia. Sounds crazy, but it's true...
...addition, Gaines expanded the TIME franchise by introducing TIME FOR KIDS, TIME DIGITAL and such online services as TIME DAILY. Yet he never lost sight of the magazine's primary mission. Says Gaines: "The new wave of instant news via broadcast TV, cable and the computer has created not a problem for Time, but an opportunity. Having all this access to news does not mean that people today are better informed; it just means they are ill informed about more things. If I'm right, the most important news function on the information highway will not be the provision...
...former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp will make its own proposal to flatten the federal income tax. Bob Dole, the Republican front runner and co-sponsor of the commission, is expected to endorse it. The idea is picking up so much steam that the real estate lobby is planning to broadcast radio commercials in Iowa and New Hampshire to pressure candidates not to make their tax plans too flat. The lobby is worried that a flat tax might wipe out the deduction for mortgage-interest payments, which subsidizes the housing market to the tune of $60 billion a year...