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...Tonight show -- becomes available, it goes to Jay Leno. With his NBC contract expiring next spring, Letterman hires a new agent, Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and starts entertaining offers. Everyone from the Fox Network (which wants to team Letterman in a late-night bloc with Chevy Chase) to major syndicators like Viacom (which offers Letterman additional exposure on its cable networks MTV and VH-1) weighs in with lucrative bids...
Bush said "about a dozen countries" would contribute troops; France made a quick offer of 1,700. The U.S. is prepared to send 28,000 Marine and Army fighters, who will secure airports, ports and roads and chase away the looters. Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they could take "pre-emptive action" -- meaning shoot first if they are threatened. That is a sharp break from the usual rules for U.N. peacekeeping forces, which are allowed only to shoot back when fired upon...
Here, in fiction, and in less than a minute, the gridlock that has paralyzed Washington is neatly exposed: Congressmen don't have to chase money with their votes; there's so much around they can cop all they want no matter what their stance on a specific issue. "It's not that bad things happen, although they sometimes do," says Marty Kaplan, The Distinguished Gentleman's screenwriter. "It's that good things don't happen. The real story is that Washington is frozen, and a lot of people are making a killing keeping it that way." Kaplan knows the territory...
Other students confessed secret desires to see the squirrels chased--or even eaten--by household pets. "The best part about the squirrels is when the dogs chase them," said Amy E. Forker...
Harvard had a 5-on-3 advantage for the last 1:09 of the final period, but exhaustion kicked in and the Crimson, too tired to chase the puck, could not score the tying goal...