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Snuff fans had to be cheered last week as the inexorable march of network television toward live-murder broadcasts took another step forward. JUSTIN SEBIK, 26, a contestant on the CBS reality snoozefest Big Brother 2, was tossed from the show after he really wielded a butcher knife, really held it to the throat of a fellow contestant he was kissing and really asked, "Would you be mad at me if I killed you?" Both Sebik and his paramour, Krista Stegall, had apparently been drinking earlier in the evening, and it was clear that Stegall was not concerned...
...know Wall Street knows the language, and we know they were listening - CNBC broadcast both the testimony and the interminable Q&A live for all two-plus hours. It was harder to tell, however, whether investors, deluged all morning with lousy earnings reports, looked at the bright side of Greenspan's comments or the dark: Inventory corrections are still going on, businesses are still blanching at the thought of capital investments, and the next six months are going to be very grim indeed. In any case, stocks slid on frenzied volume all morning...
...Maybe he changed his mind. Earlier this year Kim's government launched a tax investigation of 23 newspapers and broadcast companies. The result was announced late last month: according to the government, a whopping $390 million in back taxes and penalties is owed, half from the country's top three dailies?the Chosun Daily, the JoongAng Daily and the Dong-a Daily?which are known for seldom having anything sweet to say about the President...
WEBLORE The Vatican may broadcast Mass on TV, but don't expect online confessionals any time soon. The Vatican last week nixed all hope of digital forgiveness, saying the sacrament has to be up close and personal...
...business, even buying and selling a used car. "This is not just about reality in life, it's about real-life skills," says Japhet, who is executive director of the nongovernmental Institute for Health and Development Communications, which produces the show. 'Soul City' also has a radio version broadcast daily in nine of South Africa's 11 official languages, as well as weekly newspaper columns and a series of educational booklets...