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...television producers significantly past the age of 25 to concoct a nighttime soap opera. What partners Mary-Ellis Bunim (a veteran of Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns) and Jon Murray, both in their 40s, came up with -- The Real World -- was a hip complement to the channel's usual diet of music videos. Now in its fourth season, the documentary series follows the lives of six or seven carefully chosen young strangers, brought together to live for several months in a home seemingly decorated from a Pottery Barn catalog. The cast members and locales change each year...
...satisfied with the results. Now he is about to launch a five-member professional review committee that will examine every internal investigation and vote on the discipline required. He also established eight peer groups to give black agents, female agents and six other subgroups--including white males--a clear channel for venting grievances...
...deputy district attorney not assigned to the case that "the presentation was herky-jerky. The prosecutors are the filter through which the jury 'gets it,' and this case just didn't have continuity.'' Says veteran criminal defense lawyer Don Wager, who has covered the case for the cable sports channel espn: "This jury has to pan for gold. The gold is there; they just have to look for it.'' The problem, he believes, is that Marcia Clark and her colleagues didn't know when to leave well enough alone. "I mean, spending eight days with the coroner...
...then his party suffered historic losses in the 1994 elections. The Republicans in Congress, only 71Ú2 months after their landslide victory, are now supported by only 34% of the public on their handling of budget issues in the Time/cnn poll. Observes Powell: "The American people are channel surfing. And you're going to channel surf in '96, '98, 2000, until you find something you like...
Intellectually, Powell can argue both the positive and negative aspects of such disruption. A black President could become a major healer of the racial divisions that plague this country. A true centrist could form a governing coalition that could bring stability and end the "channel surfing" that has marked recent elections. A strong leader elected largely on his own terms, without obligations to interest groups, could define a new course for America, at home and abroad, for the next generation...