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NAMED. Katie Couric, 49, as anchor of the CBS Evening News, becoming the first sole female anchor and managing editor of a network newscast; in New York City. As the abidingly chipper co-host of Today, Couric led NBC's morning show to 538 consecutive weeks of ratings dominance. In September, Couric will assume the desk once manned by Walter Cronkite; she will also be a contributor to 60 Minutes...
...whose great subjects have been extremists (see Aguirre, The Wrath of God), combines hundreds of hours of video tape Treadwell shot over the years and interviews with people who knew Treadwell to create an ironic, dubious, compelling portrait of a man succumbing to madness without losing his chipper, childlike spirit. People keep saying that Treadwell "crossed the line" that separates man from beast, which is surely true. But he also crossed the line between sanity and insanity, and as intimate portrait of that process this film is both unique and unimprovable...
...change was announced, outrage predictably followed. Donnie Hatt, the logger who chopped down this year’s tree, commented that if he had known the tree would be called a holiday tree, “I’d have cut it down and put it through the chipper.” Sixty-four percent of the people polled by the CBS television affiliate in Boston said that Christmas had become too political. Mayor Menino himself said, “I grew up with a Christmas tree, I’m going to stay with a Christmas tree...
...about the name change, saying that he would not have cut down the tree had he known it was not going to be called a “Christmas tree.” “I’d have cut it down and put it through the chipper,” Hatt told the Halifax Herald. “If they decide it should be a holiday tree, I’ll tell them to send it back. If it was a holiday tree, you might as well put it up at Easter...
Jerry Kilgore, a Republican candidate for Governor whose mountain twang kept him out of his own ads for much of the campaign, was looking starched and chipper Sunday as he shook hands outside the Falls Church, a 273-year-old Episcopal congregation near Washington that has a number of Bush Administration luminaries in its pews. Falls Church is a Democratic oasis, but these were his people. "In Falls Church, of all places, a landslide!" Kilgore said delightedly before heading inside. He is Baptist, but joined fellow parishioners in kneeling for prayers. The service ran long and so he sneaked...