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Sporting expertise in her family resided with her stepfather, Richard Zabelski, who had learned to ski while in the military during the Vietnam War. Zabelski encouraged his young the stepdaughter to take part in the sport, both as a way for her to channel her energy and as a way for him to overcome the barriers that tend to separate stepparents and stepchildren...
There are countless prime time shows about lawyers, including the award-winning L.A. Law. There are best-selling novels (The Firm), movies (Presumed Innocent), fake TV trials (Divorce Court) and real TV trails (the William Kennedy Smith rape case). There's even Court TV, A 24-hour cable channel devoted to coverage of the courts...
...revelation caused little stir: the show was tucked away on cable, and went off the air shortly thereafter. It took a Top 10 network series that will undoubtedly be around for years to grab the Vice President's attention. Now he needs to do some channel switching...
Robertson started his empire in 1959 with wyah, a ramshackle station in Portsmouth, Va., whose call letters stand for Yahweh (God in Hebrew). Since then, he has masterfully mixed the 700 Club, a religious talk show, with the Family Channel, a 24-hour oasis of clean entertainment, to build a lucrative media operation, which U.P.I.'s newsgathering would neatly complement. Robertson has one month to review the agency's books, after which he can adjust his offer or drop it completely...
There is some irony in this, since Congress four years ago passed what was supposed to be the welfare blueprint for the rest of the century. Drawing on dozens of state workfare experiments during the previous decade, the Family Support Act of 1988 was designed to channel able-bodied AFDC parents into the work force. Among other things, it requires every state to provide education and job-training programs and offers Medicaid coverage and child-care payments for up to one year after parents leave the welfare rolls to take jobs...