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...Naughton, president of the Poynter Institute and Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation, leaders of two of the nation's largest journalism think tanks, also actively supported Giles's candidacy...
...good chance to be competitive in its time period"; "We're going to take this character places you haven't seen him next season"; "We never even think about the ratings." But no one on the tour, perhaps, is better practiced at the non-answer answer than Chris Carter. Carter, after all, is the creator of Fox's "The X-Files," which is essentially a non-answer answer in series form: a fascinating and infuriating sci-fi mystery whose "mythology" unfolds molasses-like, every season offering an "explosive" finale that opens five questions for every one it resolves...
...abducted by a UFO while nemesis Cigarette-Smoking Man (William B. Davis) died (apparently) and partner Scully (Gillian Anderson) announced she was pregnant, apparently - as far as anyone watching the show could tell - without having had sex with anybody. Millions of viewers asked the eternal question: What the...? So Carter's session with the insatiable critics was a delicate ballet of obviously unanswerable questions and cryptic answers, which alternately conveyed, in classic Carter fashion, that he was holding back the mysteries of the universe or that he basically makes up the answers as he goes along. The very first question...
...Naughton, president of the Poynter Institute and Hodding Carter III, president of the Knight Foundation, leaders of two of the nation's largest journalism think tanks, also actively supported Giles's candidacy...
...sleeping arrangements: Clinton, like Carter before him at Camp David I, is staying at the four-bedroom Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...