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Some critics have raised concerns about whether a network chief, of whatever persuasion, should be injecting his political agenda into programming. Though CNN's news coverage remains untainted, Turner's views are reflected in a variety of entertainment fare, from the relatively mild pro-environment messages of Jacques Cousteau's specials to more overtly polemical TV movies like Incident at Dark River. "We never said we were going to be totally balanced," notes Turner. Still, when compared with timid network programming and a PBS schedule that has been hamstrung by conservative corporate underwriters, Turner's up-front approach is refreshing...
...actual event has so far proved to be far less damaging. Thanks to mild weather that kept the spill at bay, by the end of last week the 217-mile-long slick had stagnated about 29 miles off the Moroccan coast. Though the spill from the Iranian supertanker Khark 5 is the 16th largest in history, its eventual impact on the environment and Morocco's economy may be relatively mild. But until the oil is completely dispersed, changes in the weather may yet push the crude onto the shore. That possibility was keeping Moroccans on edge...
...South Pole, a featureless expanse of white that stretches to the horizon. "We arrived at 2 a.m. on a brilliantly sunny night," he recalls. "They were having a heat wave -- ten below zero, the record high for the year." Lemonick was relieved to return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into the teens. For all its ; harsh splendor, Antarctica suddenly seemed as welcoming...
...million Indians went to the polls last week, but they were not cheering for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi the way they did when he ran in 1984, two months after the assassination of his mother Indira. Surveys showed that the five-party National Front coalition, led by the mild, bespectacled V.P. Singh, stood a good chance of beating Gandhi's Congress (I) Party. Since independence, Congress has been defeated only once...
...deal that could bring creator Aaron Sorkin, 28, a sum well into six figures. By the time the show opened last week, however, the publicity about a wunderkind proved a disadvantage: it imposed unreasonable expectations and, for some spectators, turned what would have been a pleasant surprise into mild disappointment that its author is merely a deft % entertainer, not another Tennessee Williams...