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...times have changed. Married...with Children will air its farewell episode this week, after 11 seasons. The 700 Club still has a spot on the Family Channel, Robertson's cable network, but it has been overshadowed by secular fare, such as reruns of Columbo and Rescue 911. Most startling of all, Rupert Murdoch and Pat Robertson are talking about becoming partners. Negotiations are well along--only "technical matters" remain to be resolved, according to one source--for Murdoch to buy a stake in Robertson's International Family Entertainment, parent company of the Family Channel. Although the principals won't comment...
...discovery of a financial channel running from Taiwan to Hong Kong to Republican national headquarters may well change the terms of Washington's latest money mess. Until now Democrats have taken the hit for fund-raising excesses, providing grist for investigations by the Justice Department and 11 congressional committees and prompting calls for an independent counsel. But as Young's secret role shows, the lure of easy foreign money is bipartisan. Young's business depends in large part on Western access to Chinese markets and a secure Taiwan, objectives pushed by Republicans and the think tank he backed. That agenda...
...Harvard, Malone's peers--like Michael J. Lynch '76, a sports broadcaster for Boston's Channel 5 News who played football with Malone--say he had a magnetic personality...
...Channel Five's Lynch says that the treasurer's aggressive attacks in the name of cleaning up government separate him from the rest of the pack...
...been broken apply to donations given "to influence a federal election." They say the laws have been applied only to contributions for a specific candidate, not to the millions in so-called soft money given for party activities. All the same, most donors would admit that, no matter what channel their cash flowed through, they gave to elect Clinton or Dole. But Reno could trigger the independent-counsel statute by finding a conflict of interest that prevented her department from investigating the matter. William Barr, Attorney General under George Bush and a past critic of the statute, argues that...