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...Desperate Housewives did that for drama and soaps. But a genre show can hook viewers fast through sensational plots. Guy gets drugged by a hooker--bang, you got 30 million people's attention. Sitcoms depend on gradual bonding with characters, and today's networks, part of media conglomerates, want instant hits. "Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them," says Phil Rosenthal, creator of Raymond, which--like Seinfeld and Cheers--had poor ratings its first season...
...Asked about possible Iranian countermeasures if the UN Security Council were to impose sanctions, he replied tersely: "The decision will depend on the circumstances...
Going forward, Leonard knows AirTran's fate will depend largely on whether the Federal Government gets out of the business of subsidizing failed airlines. "As a nation, we are subsidizing failure on a grand scale ... And it needs to end," says Leonard. "There should be firm limits to bankrupt carriers' being allowed an almost never ending process of not paying their bills." But even if the government steps back and Delta and Northwest become significantly weaker, at least one serious rival is already moving in to pick up some slack. New York--based JetBlue, just five years...
...Administration's claim that the insurgency is coming under control, the body count keeps rising daily, with no end in sight for the quagmire in Iraq. Ralph Kress La Mesa, California, U.S. Your article said Rice's becoming the "running mate for the Republican presidential nominee in 2008 ... will depend largely on whether she can find a way for the U.S. to declare victory in Iraq before support for the Bush doctrine, at home and abroad, runs out." How many "victories" will it take before the Bush Administration realizes that you cannot buy friendship or bully other nations into...
...heroin. Although Afghanistan's poppy farmers produce about 87% of the world's opium, according to a recent United Nations report, the Bush Administration has been unwilling to deploy the U.S. military to eradicate poppy fields for fear of antagonizing the hundreds of thousands of impoverished villagers whose livelihoods depend on the crop...