Word: hosted
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...discrimination case against NPR but eventually settled out of court. A 1988 pay-equity study showed that women, even such NPR bright lights as Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, were consistently paid less than men. In 1995 Katie Davis, then a contract reporter for Morning Edition and the temporary host of Weekend All Things Considered, filed a $1.2 million suit charging that the network failed to promote her to a permanent position and paid her less than men in comparable jobs. That suit was settled too, for an undisclosed amount...
...Barbra award for good sportsmanship: David Letterman, for making fun of his own panned stint as Oscar host...
...good concepts had been taken. For Eye on People, the network has gathered up some top talent at CBS News, and a lot of videotape that's been lying around for years, to assemble a potpourri of informational programming about (you guessed it) people. Charles Kuralt is the host for I Remember, in which reporters talk about their reaction to major news events, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Paula Zahn anchors Fast Forward, which takes a look at people who used to be in the news, from Morton Downey Jr. to George McGovern. Final Cut will run unedited versions...
...fairness, I should mention that the film did begin its story slightly earlier: the audience was favored with a view of the Canyon's earliest human settlers. That is to say, we were shown a host of naked actors trying desperately to look primitive while running around in caves and grunting. The film ended with the James Earl Jones-style narrator proclaiming sonorously that the Grand Canyon gives us a glimpse of the immortality within each...
...unknown and quite under-appreciated. Harvard has the renown of having established the first peer counseling group in the country. During the academic year 1970-71, a number of students formed Room 13. Twenty-six years later, Room 13, now joined by four other peer counseling and a whole host of peer education groups, remains open throughout the night to administer to the needs of Harvard's student population...