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...novels, making love or helping the kids with their homework. By and large, they're watching dramas or reality shows instead. But having strong sitcoms is still important to networks. Comedies rate far better than other shows in reruns--Is anybody really interested in catching a repeat of The Mole?--and sell more easily to syndication. Which may explain why some programmers and sitcom producers are resorting to a desperation move, somewhere between getting Vince McMahon to start a new football league and formally declaring bankruptcy: innovation. Rejecting the conventional pacing and look of sitcoms, trusting viewers to laugh without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: More Than Yuks Redux | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Five are of course sympathetic - it's their investment too. But legal whack-a-mole is not a business model, and the laws of physics would seem to prevent the encryption of sound. Which means the future of music may end up looking a lot like an infinitely large FM radio - free, demand-based and advertiser-supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of the Line for Royalties? | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

CATCHING A MOLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...still digging, since none of the previous arrests explained all the blown operations of the '80s and '90s. Not too long after "B" resumed contact with the Russians, the analysts concluded that the failures were caused by leaks from FBI files. They were sure the FBI harbored another mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...William Webster will save the agency from a nasty probe. The proud FBI hates the very idea of any outside control or oversight. After Ames' treachery was discovered, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich produced a scathing review of the bureau's inaction and confusion when a highly placed mole was first suspected. Freeh enlisted Webster, charges a former Justice Department official, "as a pre-emptive strike to another inspector general investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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