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After fumbling N.F.L. football, CBS was in no mood to lose any more sports action to upstart Fox. So, at the end of negotiations for broadcast rights to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, CBS came up a winner -- at a price. Grabbing the games helped the network prop up its slipping sports franchise. But after paying $375 million, a Winter Games record, CBS will do well to break even...
...turns in Urban Cowboy, An Officer and a Gentleman and Terms of Endearment made her the movies' most promising -- and delivering -- young actress. She wore her wild streak in public: sex, drugs, locking horns with directors and co-stars. She turned down meaty roles in several popular films (including Broadcast News) and walked off another (A League of Their Own). Her star waned with brash parts in The Sheltering Sky and Everybody Wins. She made amber waves in Nebraska while trysting with Governor Bob Kerrey, before and after her two- year marriage to actor Timothy Hutton...
...many Pakistanis, the family spat is more entertaining than most of the soaps broadcast on state-run television. But the violent end of last week's demonstration, which left one person dead and 20 wounded, has sullied an otherwise promising start to Bhutto's second term. With the government and party machinery firmly in her control, no one expects any serious challenges to her rule. That is, until Murtaza gets out of jail. Even on bail, he will, by local Muslim tradition, automatically assume the leadership of the vast Bhutto clan. With his mother's help and the support...
...Thomas to the Supreme Court was a putative win for the Bush Administration and the Republicans, but it was anti-Thomas backlash a year later that elected a squadron of Democratic women to the Senate and helped lose the election for Bush. In the fall of 1992, the four broadcast networks, especially CBS, were giddy at winning their long fight in Congress to oblige the cable-TV companies to negotiate payments for the network shows carried on cable; a year later, the networks, especially CBS, capitulated to terms essentially dictated by the cable companies...
Advertisers will pay a record $900,000 for a 30-second spot during NBC's broadcast of the Super Bowl later this month...