Word: koppel
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...parent company Disney are being accused of selling out journalism itself - all for negotiating with the late-night talk-show host to jump from CBS and replace Ted Koppel. (Letterman draws younger viewers and so more advertiser's dollars, whereas news programs are traditionally a magnet for Metamucil ads.) The news sent New York's chattering class into a frenzy; as of this writing, this national crisis has prompted three front-page New York Times articles, and counting...
Perhaps Pike will have a different fate. For one thing, its alums include Strom Thurmond, Ted Koppel and S. Truett Cathy, the founder and CEO of Chick-Fil-A. But it’s not just the illustrious past of PKA that has attracted over a dozen Harvard students to its Cambridge colony. Harvard’s PKA, which joins four male and two female Greek organizations on campus, promises to be a place for all party-seekers...
...Racism exploded again when Baseball Inc. decided to solemnly mark the 40th anniversary of Robinson's major league debut. Ted Koppel invited me and the late Al Campanis, then Dodger general manager, to appear on his popular network program Nightline. Robinson died in 1972, but Koppel asked me what he might think about the state of blacks in baseball during 1987. I said Robinson would be appalled that there was not a single black manager in the major leagues. Koppel said to Campanis, who was sitting in a Houston ball park, "Is Mr. Kahn's statement true...
Since 1993, he has been a member of Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C., a 1,500-household Reform synagogue that has been called the nation’s most powerful congregation—its members include “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, New York Times bureau chief Michael Oreskes and Harvard’s Marvin Kalb, executive director of the Shorenstein Center for Press and Public Policy’s Washington office...
...efforts, as well as a two-run homer from senior outfielder Sarah Koppel, propelled sophomore pitcher Kara Brotemarkle to her first win of the year against Providence on Sunday morning...