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...televised death of Youk, a vintage-car restorer from Waterford Township, Mich., set off a round of finger pointing over the motives behind the performance. Oakland County prosecutor David Gorcyca, who filed the murder charges last Wednesday, accused Kevorkian of airing the video to satisfy his "attention-starved ego." CBS, meanwhile, faced accusations of exploiting the death for ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn...
...financial fortune and overt personal dominance. But if the measure of business success is the creation of new enterprise, then Rozelle was one of the greats. Once, late in his career, after it was clear what he had accomplished, Rozelle was asked by a reporter if he had an ego. Pete Rozelle replied that if you took all the egos in pro sports--the players', the coaches', the owners'--and averaged them out, his ego was just above the average. It might have been true, but no one ever knew it. That was his genius...
...upcoming campaign, those competitors hoping to capture the council presidency ought to heed some lessons from their unimpressive predecessors: First, and most importantly, keep your ego in check. You are not running for the highest office in the land. You are aspiring to lead a body which is the laughingstock of this campus. You don't need a campaign "staff...
Stine (Christian Roulleau '01) is a hack writer who churns out detective pulp to feed the studios, living vicariously through his fictional hero and alter ego, the hardboiled gumshoe Stone (Dan Berwick '01). As Stine and his artistic integrity wrestle ineffectually with Buddy Fidler (Kevin Meyers '02), the big cheese at the studio, to produce a ratings safe screenplay, the hapless writer fantasizes by typewriter Stone's life of adventure. The fiction parallels the reality, and the reality is finally defined by the fiction, all in a convoluted but highly enjoyable way. Throughout, a bristling stable of beautiful, gutsy women...
...fell over and pinned him to the ground. Knievel, 60, was rescued by neighbors who heard his pleas for help. Though he complained of leg pain and a scraped elbow, Knievel refused to be taken to a hospital. Even a glutton for pain is not impervious to a bruised ego...