Word: cbs
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...from a region of moderate Republicans that Paxon might be able to bridge the party's moderate-conservative divide. He did so in his personal life when he married Susan Molinari, a pro-choice Republican colleague who quit Congress this year to anchor a Saturday morning news show for cbs and spend more time with their 18-month-old daughter. In his public life, he did it as chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 1994 and 1996, when more than a third of all current House Republicans were elected. If Gingrich was the mastermind behind the G.O.P. revolution...
...word shouldn't leak to outsiders. Says Kay Scholl, who runs Carlisle Foods with her husband: "Nobody asked us personally to keep it a secret, but it was known that this was the family's wishes. I'm extremely proud that we honored that." Even reporters at KCCI, the CBS affiliate in Des Moines, who got wind of the story early on, agreed to keep it under wraps. "Even if the ethics debate was raging in our minds," explains KCCI reporter Steve Karlin, "we have to live here...
...Both CBS and NBC refused airtime to the Media Foundation's 30-second spot, which features the North American continent transforming into a bloated pig and asks consumers to "give it a rest." Complained Robert L. Lowary of CBS: "This commercial asks the viewer to not make any purchases on November 28 ... in opposition to the current economic policy in the United States." Current economic policy, evidently, being "shop till you drop...
...race-car driver who was wheelchair-bound owing to an accident--was arrested after flipping his car twice in a drunken-driving incident in Utah. The ex-actor, who had three times Utah's legal blood-alcohol limit, was working as an assistant cameraman on the set of CBS's religious drama Promised Land...
...visitors to register their nominations. Over the next two years, you can suggest candidates in five categories (Warriors & Statesmen, Entertainers & Artists, Builders & Titans, Scientists & Healers, and Heroes & Adventurers). The sixth and final issue in this series, which will be launched next April and will be accompanied by documentaries on CBS, will name the Person of the Century...