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...that America's leaders lost touch with the people, where the government appeared corrupt and irresponsible, one particular example of courage served to remind people across the nation that hope still remained. The decision of Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson '41 to resign rather than fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox '34 during the Watergate investigation showed Americans that there were still some idealists, still some honest men in public service...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Remembering a Hero | 1/12/2000 | See Source »

...Corporation made another power play against a cable system this weekend when it blacked out its Fox network from three Cox Cable systems. The reason? Cox is refusing to carry two new Fox channels on all of its cable systems. Cox says the timing is a low blow since it leaves Virginia and Texas residents without TV access to their local NFL teams just as the playoffs are beginning. The spat shows just how much America's TV landscape has changed - long gone are the days when the tube was dominated by three networks zapped through the airwaves onto your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cable Football: Cox vs. Fox | 1/4/2000 | See Source »

...well-publicized standoff with New York City's Time Warner Cable (which, like TIME Online, is owned by Time Warner), prompting Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to demand that Time Warner add two Fox channels. But the effectiveness of the networks' tactics is uncertain. Some industry analysts say Fox could force Cox's hand by prompting local residents to switch to satellite service. Cable's defenders argue that once cable companies package telephone and Internet services, which is already beginning to happen, these tactics will be less effective, since consumers will be less inclined to give up one-stop telecommunications shopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cable Football: Cox vs. Fox | 1/4/2000 | See Source »

DIED. ELLIOT RICHARDSON, 79, Attorney General for Nixon who resigned rather than obey the President's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox during Watergate; from complications after a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...roll broker. His client list was more Melrose Avenue than Wall Street: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Matt Damon, Michael Ovitz. For the club-hopping Giacchetto, the line between client and buddy was as thin as a supermodel. He put DiCaprio up in his SoHo loft and vacationed with Courtney Cox's family. He had a knack for wrapping himself in buzz. In a New York Times profile of Ovitz last May, Giacchetto dropped names the way most brokers drop bad stocks. "Get me Michael!" he reportedly shouted to an invisible assistant. "Get me Leo!" (Giacchetto denies it happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Off The A-List | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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