Word: broadcasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I attended college, it was India that most powerfully projected what it meant to be under-developed. The specter of suffering emanated from the sub-continent; broadcast by the media, it circled the globe and haunted our homes. While still poor, India now boasts productive agriculture, growing industries, and an expanding middle class. The image of suffering now emanates from Africa...
...situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country's President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, concede that foreign troops "will not solve our problems." Talking to Time from his mansion in Bujumbura...
...Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what is going to happen here...
...when in fact he was saying privately that his company was "in the nicotine-delivery business." Wigand also accused B&W lawyers of concealing potentially damaging research. The disclosure prompted cbs News to air on Friday part of a 60 Minutes interview with Wigand that it had declined to broadcast earlier for fear of a lawsuit. The full interview will be broadcast this Sunday...
That may be easier to do now that the Black Entertainment Network has broadcast what amounted to an hour-long infomercial for O.J. This was Simpson doing what he does best--selling himself--and it flopped. BET, which promised a "no-holds-barred" interview, was trying to polish its reputation as a news operation. Simpson's goal was to hawk the $29.95 home video in which he gives his own version of the night when Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman were butchered. Simpson reached out to BET because none of the networks or major cable operations would...