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...would call Lowell (Bud) Paxson a dimwit. He is an unusual sort of TV executive, certainly: a born-again Christian who makes more money than headlines and counts among his achievements the Home Shopping Network, which he sold for a bundle in 1992. Nor would Barry Diller, a genuine TV honcho who makes a lot of money and headlines, qualify as anything less than bright. But each is about to embark on what would appear to be a fool's errand: starting a new television network in an era in which audiences are fragmenting and network profits disappearing. Paxson...
...this development occurred in plain view, of course, but until the morning of Aug. 24, 1992, no one seemed to recognize its implications. Hurricane Andrew was not merely a wake-up call; it was a stick of dynamite under the pillow. Prior to Andrew, no one envisioned more than $7 billion in insured losses for a single storm. But after Andrew's landfall, Karen Clark, founder of Applied Insurance Research Inc., in Boston, one of a new breed of "catastrophe modelers," sent an audacious message to her clients estimating insured losses at $9 billion. If Andrew proved to be more...
...Jerry Jarrell, director of the federal Tropical Prediction Center (which includes the National Hurricane Center), the most frightening near miss was not Andrew but Hurricane Opal, which hit the Gulf Coast in October 1995. Opal had been a weak storm, but just before it struck, it underwent what forecasters call "rapid deepening," leaping from Category 2 to nearly Category 5, with winds at 150 m.p.h. It also started moving faster. Such rapid change is the thing emergency managers most fear. Says Tom Millwee, coordinator of the Texas Division of Emergency Management: "You go to bed thinking...
...their eminently graceful elders. While preparing for the French Open in May, Hingis noted that Graf--who had just announced her return after an injury--was past her prime. ("Everyone's entitled to their own opinion," says Graf.) At Wimbledon, Venus Williams threw a volcanic tantrum over a line call in her battle against Novotna. (Novotna on the histrionics: "I don't even look at her.") And the younger crew is not shy about its narcissism. When British tabloids published pictures of Kournikova taken from behind, the athlete declared they were "great" depictions of her derriere: "Hey, it wasn...
...that he told the Times his notoriety had helped invigorate his social life--a comment he has since denied. And angry simply because he did nothing before or after the carnage. "What have I done?" he defiantly asked radio disk jockey Tim Conway Jr. one night during an impromptu call-in to Los Angeles station KLSX. "I have done nothing wrong." Even the police have told him so, Cash said. "You s.o.b.!" screamed Conway in return. "I hope you burn in hell...