Word: media
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PSLM attributes its successes to a program of humiliating Harvard through public demonstrations that draw campus audiences and national media attention...
...Moscow. When the communist system collapsed, the city unceremoniously took over as much of the party's resources as it could. A corporation that is closely controlled by the mayor, Sistema ("the system"), now controls much of the capital's prime real estate, factories and construction firms, plus a media empire that includes a couple of TV stations. Luzhkov has described his blueprint for Russia's future as a mix of capitalism and state control. His models: England's Prime Minister Tony Blair and the New Labour Party...
...vehicle for realizing that blueprint is supposed to be the Fatherland movement. Launched late last year at a conference attended by more than 1,000 delegates selected from all over the country and 450 journalists, it was immediately described in the media as the new "party of power," the government in waiting. Fatherland's politics are something of a hybrid, more nationalist in some ways than Yeltsin's but also more socialist in orientation...
...BARBARA WALTERS AND MONICA LEWINSKY (ABC) Walters' three-hankie national catharsis turned the impeachment marathon back into the good old-fashioned tabloid scandal it was meant to be. Ridiculed and infantilized in the media for months, Lewinsky was surprisingly sympathetic, confident, unrepentant and, well, telegenic...
...ONION The funniest site on the Internet theonion.com shows no sign of losing its satiric edge. Now it has conquered Old Media with the best seller Our Dumb Century. Web migration, it seems, is not a one-way ticket...