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NETWORK TV IS A NOTORIOUSLY TROUBLED business, with cable, VCRs and other rivals steadily wooing away viewers. But that doesn't mean one of the Big Three can't still pop a champagne cork every spring. This year's celebrator: CBS, first in prime-time ratings for the 1991-92 season. The network drew an average 13.8 rating for the 30-week period, comfortably ahead of NBC, at 12.3, and ABC, at 12.2. It was an especially satisfying victory for CBS, which has been in third place for the past four seasons; no other network has jumped from worst...
...sister and I marched with County Wexford; Liz McColgan marched with County Cork; Kerry McBride, of course, marched with Country Kerry. Those parades are one of my favorite memories of high school. I wouldn't want to deny anyone the experience of marching with their ancestral country in a display of ethnic pride...
Literary and Historical Perspectives on Aislinge Meic Con Glinne--by Maire Herbert, University College Cork. CLCS. Seminar Room, 61 Kirkland...
Thus caught between its commitment to restoring democratic rule in Haiti and its determination to cork the outpouring of boat people, the Bush Administration weighed several unsatisfactory steps. One possibility was to end the embargo, which has hit poor Haitians the hardest. Such a reversal of policy, however, could prove messy for Bush in an election year. A military intervention in a country that poses no threat to international peace and security would be all but impossible to justify; last week the State Department quickly denied that any military option was being considered at present. The likeliest option...
...town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants. Culinary czars rule a population where schoolchildren learn the meaning of chanterelle and shiitake before they study the alphabet. Beer can come in a bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...