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News 12, launched in 1986 by Cablevision, is the vanguard of a growing array of efforts to provide local news -- and lots of it -- on the same basis as CNN. In Orange County, near Los Angeles, an all-news channel was started last September by the Freedom newspaper chain, owner of the Orange County Register. TCI Cable and the local Fox station are teaming up to create a 24-hour news channel for Chicago, set to debut this summer. A similar operation for the Washington area will be launched in September by Albritton Communications, and Time Warner has announced plans...
Orlando's rococo industry of make-believe has put some zip into local gossip columns. Hollywood celebrities pop up regularly. Some, like Steven Spielberg and Robert Earl, the British mastermind behind the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes, have even bought homes in Orlando. The area, says Earl, is "full of millionaires driving trucks and wearing jeans...
...sort of strictly enforced urban planning has come to seem somehow anti- American over the past half-century, and especially during the laissez- faire decade just ended. To create neotraditional towns requires that residents surrender some bits of individualism (no picture windows, no chain- link fences, no raised ranch houses) for the sake of overall harmony -- yet many neighborhood homeowners' associations already have rigid rules regarding lawns and paint colors. Some critics disparage the nostalgia that fuels the traditional-town movement -- as if all suburbs weren't in some measure nostalgic exercises, attempts to indulge middle-class Americans' pastoral urges...
...counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads provided by KGB defectors -- and even to terrorize staff members with intimidating inquiries. By the time he was sacked in 1974, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking Angleton had so thoroughly undermined the agency's effectiveness that a formal CIA review accused him of having a "very detrimental" effect on the agency...
...When the yuppie trend came in, it drove out the coffee houses and turned Harvard Square into a shopping mall," Franzen explained, while hanging up a chain of cloth flags with hand-painted peace symbols...