Word: cbs
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...FLAP OVER HIS 60 MINUTES report on President Bush's National Guard service has marred Dan Rather's retirement from the CBS Evening News after 24 years. But one thing you can be sure of: Rather--who once signed off from his newscast with the word "Courage"--will put some thought into his Wednesday-night farewell. He may even study some of the parting words of anchors past. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...Those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid they've made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton." --WALTER CRONKITE, CBS EVENING NEWS...
...said, “There was no individual student with whom I danced for more than 15 seconds.”—Goodin remembers her 15 seconds well. FM dialed her red phone for a little reminiscing about a time when the only thing CBS News, which covered the study break, wanted of Summers was to see him get down on the dance floor...
...reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia." So when the two leaders met later in the week in Bratislava, Slovakia, there was no chummy back-slapping. Putin was defensive, deflecting concerns about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes acts based on urban myths about the U.S. fed to him by ill-informed aides...
...Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says a senior Administration official. "It was like something...