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Despite years of efforts by parents, educators, children's-TV activists, and occasional FCC commissioners and members of Congress, the forces of commercial television are overwhelming the true believers in quality children's programming. Peggy Charren, founder of the now defunct advocacy group Action for Children's Television, says, "There are more choices than when I began act 27 years ago because of cable and the vcr, but broadcast television has just gotten worse. What's so sad is that's all that's available to poor children, and they are the ones who need the most help." Newton...
...advertisers are more likely to be selling single-malt Scotch and leather goods than power mowers. For the more modest-and practical-Hearst has launched Country Living Gardener, and Meredith offers Home Garden. Conda Nast will re-enter the gardening market in the fall of 1996 with the defunct HG, relaunched as House & Garden, under new editor Dominique Browning...
...performers are growing more eclectic, the sales booming. Tony Bennett's Grammy-winning MTV Unplugged has been the No. 1 album on Billboard's jazz charts for nearly 40 weeks. Although the punk-band Nirvana became defunct after the death of lead singer Cobain, the group's posthumously released MTV Unplugged in New York has sold 3 million copies so far and remains in the Top 20 of Billboard's pop-album charts. "You can't get around the fact that some people are just put off by certain genres of music, be it jazz or grunge," says Danny Bennett...
...Harvard Private Capital Fund (HPC) owned 82 percent of the now-defunct Collection Clothing Corporation (CCC). HPC is a wholly-owned high-risk subsidiary of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University's approximately $6 billion endowment...
...background are still more bubbling controversies over public money. Investigators are trying to find out what happened to funds missing from a now defunct tourism organization headed by Peter Mokaba, a prominent A.N.C. Member of Parliament. (Mokaba has not been accused of any wrongdoing.) And as much as $40 million in foreign donations may be missing from an association the A.N.C. set up to help former political prisoners. Some of these problems may have been caused simply by poor bookkeeping or inexperienced administrators, but South Africans are still concerned that stories of corruption will jeopardize investment...