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...publicly. Sharon Adams, 39, says she prostituted herself for 12 years to pay for crack and bore 14 children--eight of them born addicted. Now drug free and working as a pizza-delivery driver, she says, "This program isn't forcing anybody to do anything." Sherry Golding, 29, a former methamphetamine addict who struggled to regain custody of her three children, says the $200 she got to have her tubes tied was "a lifesaver. It helped me get my life together...
Many of the those who opposed President Clinton in his impeachment hearings seemed to want to come off as choirboys. So it is only fitting that one of his most ardent adversaries has found himself a choirgirl. Unfortunately, she's not his wife. Rumors have been flying that former Speaker of the House NEWT GINGRICH, 56, was involved with CALLISTA BISEK, 33, a staff member on the House Agriculture Committee and singer in a church choir, well before he filed for divorce from his second wife Marianne. (His first wife was his geometry teacher.) Now Marianne's lawyers have been...
...programming pays off in more than ratings. In a nutshell: life is cheap. For cable channels, which lack the deep pockets of their broadcast counterparts, bios are TV Helper. Jason Goodman, a former producer for BTM, says an episode costs around $150,000; a biographical movie can cost a few million dollars. The cooperation of the subject can defray costs, not only by allowing extensive interviews but also by providing free, all-important photos. Many biography shows will proceed only with the subject's approval. E! and A&E, which do some shows without cooperation--"It's Biography, not Autobiography...
PAULINE NYIRAMASUHUKO Former Rwandan leader is first woman to be indicted by U.N. tribunal. And it's for genocide
Enter Davy Crockett...er...I mean, former President Gerald Ford, a Michigan alumnus who last week wrote an extraordinary opinion piece for the New York Times, defending the race-conscious admission policies that are at the core of the Michigan cases. Ford warned that if the courts forbid Michigan to use race, along with other factors that the school employs to select its student body--including economic standing, geographic origin, athletic and artistic achievement--they would turn back the clock to an era when minorities "were isolated and penalized for the color of their skin...or national ancestry." He recounted...