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Since the Michael Skakel trial began two and a half weeks ago, his siblings - Stephen, Julie, and Rushton Jr. - have steadfastly supported their brother, accused of murdering their 15-year-old neighbor, Martha Moxley, in 1975 outside her Greenwich home. The group, which each day eats lunch at a local saloon-style restaurant and never speaks to the press, has created a kind of protective, mental barrier between Michael and his accusers, in particular the Moxley family, which sits in the courtroom just a few yards away...
...Some hitherto unknown militant group claimed responsibility and India immediately blamed its neighbor, announcing that a chocolate bar carried by one of the terrorists was made in Pakistan. Islamabad, as usual, denounced the carnage, denied complicity and added that India had no real proof. It's a familiar pattern. Gruesome attacks against Indian targets?frequently suicidal?have been a regular feature of the Kashmir imbroglio for the past decade...
...With no luck examining the father, prosecutors turned to alleged admissions of guilt made by Skakel. They told jurors of testimony from from a grand jury inquiry four years ago, family friend and neighbor Mildred Ix said Skakel's father had confided to her that Michael might have been the killer. "He said," Ix testified then, "Michael had come up to him and he said, 'you know, I had a lot of to drink that night and I would like to see, I would like to see if, if I could have had so much to drink that I would...
...says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at the Wall Street firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Every show reinforces the brand image, whether it's the profiles of celebrated women on Intimate Portrait or original movies like Video Voyeur, based on a true story about a woman who discovers her churchgoing neighbor is a Peeping...
While Lifetime acts as a sympathetic neighbor, Oxygen can seem like a know-it-all older sister, which in a way it is, given the collective success of its founders: Geraldine Laybourne, who led Nickelodeon for 15 years; the production team Carsey Werner Mandabach, whose shows include Roseanne and Cybill; and Oprah Winfrey, who is Oprah Winfrey. The network was conceived to help modern women navigate their lives; it also wanted to merge television and the Internet. Its tone, however, felt preachy, and the Internet didn't quite pan out as expected. Now that some early shows have been jettisoned...