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...victory, he'll still have to make a case that waiving foreign ownership restrictions would be in the public interest. Though the FCC found that Murdoch waited years to disclose the extent of Fox's foreign ownership, at least three commissioners are inclined to let him off the hook because Fox has created thousands of jobs and revived flagging TV stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUTFOXING THE REGULATORS | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

Three national publications -- The New YorkTimes,TimeandNewsweek-- are now struggling with an offer from theso-called Unabomber: publish a long article detailing his views, and he'll end his 17-year terror campaign. ButPenthousemay take them off the hook. TIME New York correspondent Jenifer Mattos reports that Bob Guccione, chairman of General Media International, on Thursday issued an open letter to the Unabom suspect offering to publish the 37,000-word manuscript himself inPenthouse,OMNIor another magazine he owns "in the hope that it will receive the widest possible dissemination by the media so we can save lives." Guccione told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNABOMBER . . . THE PENTHOUSE CONNECTION | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

...interview with Him. (When the idea was suggested at FM's weekly meeting, I snatched the Interview with a ferocity that, in retrospect, shocks me.) I called Michael Berry, Director of Harvard Dining Services, to see if he could arrange the meeting; it reminded me of 6th-grade hook-ups. I felt like such a putz, but there was no way I could instigate my rendezvous with Menu Man, was there? Berry's gut reaction was not propitious, to say the least. "No way. No way. Sorry. "No Menu Man? Crestfallen, I couldn't summon verbal capacity for at least...

Author: By Pooja Bhatia, | Title: a Menu Man is Hard to Find | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

...that area. I saw people surrounding the swimming pool with suitcases. Who were they? They were families and extended families of the embassy Marine guards, employees, the Vietnamese contract guards. Everybody who worked in that embassy had Vietnamese people their consciences told them they couldn't abandon, and by hook or by crook they all ended up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAIGON: THE FINAL 10 DAYS | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Curtis Joseph? Cujo has still put up the numbers: 18-8-1, 2.76 GAA, but has been pulled from games quite often lately by new coach Mike "Captain Hook" Keenan. Patrick Roy? Unfortunately, a "sky high" 3.15 GAA has led to Montreal's fading playoff hopes...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: No Sieve | 4/21/1995 | See Source »

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