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...find your neighbors flocking over to watch the New Year's Eve 1999 celebration at your house thanks to a ruling of the Federal Communications Commission last week that will bring digital television into the U.S. market...
...thank him and hang up, chalking up his curtness to the fact that I'm calling on the eve of Opening Day. Then I type up a short formal note on Crimson letterhead, stressing the large size of the paper's readership and the extraordinarily high esteem in which it is held by students, Cantabrigians and alumni alike. I request that someone call or e-mail me as soon as it is known whether Zimmer can find five or ten minutes during the week for an interview...
...high-strung mayor, fondly recalls trips to see the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at the Paramount theater. "They were my favorite comedians as a youngster," Giuliani recalls. "The crowds would spill right out onto Times Square. It would almost be like a New Year's Eve celebration. Dean and Jerry would hang out the window of their dressing room and throw programs and things down to their fans." According to Giuliani, Times Square in those days was "the center of the world" --just the sort of boosterish hyperbole one expects from a New York City mayor...
...wonder LeBow gleefully handed out smoking guns as if they were product samples. The smallest U.S. cigarette maker, whose brands include Chesterfield, L&M and Eve, admitted what just about everyone outside the industry long held as fact: that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. In another affirmation of the obvious, Liggett acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive substance. That refuted the sworn denials that seven industry leaders, including a Liggett representative, made before Congress in 1994. Says LeBow of the thinking behind last week's confessions: "It was a business, a moral and a personal decision...
...small wonder that the NSC, the FBI and the White House got into a memorable shouting match last week over who had been told what and when about the alleged Chinese attempt to throw some money around. But on the eve of Vice President Al Gore's trip to Beijing, what really had the capital buzzing was whether the emerging picture of China's role represented a new obsession or just confirmed an old habit. Traditionally China has relied on commercial allies, like U.S. multinationals, to promote its interests. What investigators want to know now is whether it also tried...