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...British arms dealer convicted of parachuting crates of weapons into India's West Bengal state in 1995; after a presidential pardon; in Calcutta. Bleach and an aircrew from Russia and Latvia were arrested in Bombay in 1995. The suspected ringleader of the weapons plot, Danish national Niels Christian Nielsen, fled India, and the intended recipients of the weapons were never confirmed...
...behavior to that of the wrongdoer. Evil would triumph. It is not easy to deny ourselves the rush of pleasure, the momentary feeling of having won (which an act of revenge provides), but it's time for the good guys to show the bad guys how to behave. Gretchen Nielsen Tucson...
...behavior to that of the wrongdoer. Evil would triumph. It is not easy to deny ourselves the rush of pleasure, the feeling of having won (which an act of revenge provides), but it's time for the good guys to show the bad guys how to behave. GRETCHEN NIELSEN Tucson, Ariz...
...networks--which stood to lose hundreds of millions of ad dollars--blamed the Nielsen rating service. Advertisers blamed the programming. But the real blame belongs to a historical force more powerful than a Nielsen box, more pernicious than a stack of bad Coupling scripts and not limited to TV: the end--or at least the extreme makeover--of the mass-media audience as we have known...
THEORY NO. 3 Bad sampling. The networks contend the drop is so dramatic that there must be problems with Nielsen's methodology. NBC research guru Alan Wurtzel has proposed a controversial explanation: the addition of more young Hispanic men to the sample this year (to reflect the population better) had the unintended effect of skewing the results, since Hispanic men, he claims, are less likely to push the buttons on their Nielsen meters. Nielsen stands by its numbers but is reviewing its methodology and expects to issue a report as early as this week. By that time, maybe...