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...ensuing affiliate scramble, the established networks found themselves forced to boost the amount of money they pay their affiliates for airing network programs. NBC's payout alone increased by a reported $100 million a year. Further insult arrived when NBC learned that a company funded jointly by Fox and Savoy Pictures had made a deal to buy four NBC affiliates and realign them with Fox. Says an attorney for a competing network: "Murdoch pushes and pushes and pushes until somebody says, 'Stop! Enough...
When it comes to heavyweight crew, there's Brown and then there's all the rest. The Brown heavyweight crew captured everything in sight last season. The Bears won at Eastern Sprints, Nationals and the Henley Regatta in England. Adding insult to injury, Brown blew out Harvard--by more than seven seconds--in a dual meet for the second year...
...Montana law that outlaws homosexual sex between consenting adults has never been enforced. The bill drew harsh criticism when Republican state Sen. Al Bishop said gay sex is "even worse than a violent sexual act." Sandra Hale, head of the gay rights group Pride, said that was an "insult" to rape and molestation victims, as well as lesbians, gays and bisexuals. "Al Bishop is kind of a wacko," says TIME Montana reporter Patrick Dawson. "As he gets older, he just gets nuttier...
...They do have a responsibility to this city," Reeves said. "I do think MIT calculated wrong by not coming here tonight. No information to the Cambridge City Council is an insult, and they insulted us directly...
...about prostitution not being a way of solving Cuba's unemployment crisis. The once remarkable health-care system is a shambles; visitors regularly carry suitcases of even the most common medications to the island. And the proposal to increase the price of alcohol and cigarettes is yet another insult, since these ``luxuries'' are the only escape enjoyed by the people of Castro's Cuba...