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...overwhelming belief that E-mail and computer conferencing is teaching an entire generation about the flexibility and utility of prose," writes Jon Carroll, a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, an editor at Tor Books, compares electronic bulletin boards with the "scribblers' compacts" of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in which members passed letters from hand to hand, adding a little more at each turn. David Sewell, an associate editor at the University of Arizona, likens netwriting to the literary scene Mark Twain discovered in San Francisco in the 1860s, "when people were reinventing journalism...
...minimize the shock of the Murdoch heist. At a Thursday press conference, CBS Broadcast Group president Howard Stringer pointed out that the affiliation switches affect only 8% of the network's audience and predicted that the ratings loss would amount to no more than two-tenths of a Nielsen point. (CBS was No. 1 in the Nielsens for the 1993-94 season with a 14.0 rating, 1.6 points higher than No. 2 ABC and 6.8 points better than...
...control or something happening unexpectedly. It isn't so much the prepared bits. What's more embarrassing is an interview where nothing interesting comes out. It's good when somebody walks out and their dress almost falls off [supermodel Tyra] or they bring out a farting machine [Leslie Nielsen]. That's good TV. You remember it. Bad TV is when somebody comes out and sits down and nothing amusing comes...
...stomach sank. Alexis told us of the overtime finish, of the breakaway goal that beat Aaron Israel, of the crock of a five-minute penalty assessed to the Crimson's Kirk Nielsen late in the game, of Lou Body's back injury that robbed Harvard of a critical defenseman as fatigue became a factor...
...Karmanos 5(Coughlin, Nielsen...