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QUOTE: "I want to rail against wind and tide, kill the whales in the ocean, sweep the whole country to save people from slavery...
Network TV is a notoriously cyclical business, and few industry observers expect ABC's troubles to last. "What ABC has done this past season is what NBC did the season before--make a lot of bad choices," says NBC Chairman Grant Tinker. "It'll take time to turn that ocean liner of bad choices around, but they'll do it." ABC has announced plans to introduce a spin-off of Dynasty next fall, and it has several major mini-series in the works, including a ten-hour dramatization of John Jakes' best seller North and South and a 20-hour...
...children in town." But two of her five have already left, following a pattern set by the young over the past century. Sauk Centre is flat and prairie plain. Despite the scattering of dairy farms and silos and little groves of trees, the landscape rolls open as the ocean right up to the edge of town. Winter lasts about eight months, and at 7:30 on Feb. 7, the birthday morning, the view from a frost-coated Palmer House window was of what a local writer, Chuck Rathe, calls glittering bitterness--a sub-zero refraction of sunrise on salt...
Bermuda is not a big place--it takes less time to traverse the island than to get to Logan during a pre-Thanksgiving rush-hour. Whether you spend your afternoons taking tea at the Mid-ocean Club or resting up from a night at the Forty Thieves--a Hamilton hotspot--it's clear that on an island where you are recognized by their license plate, a strong sense of community prevails...
...signing up in record numbers for European vacation trips, to find antique bargains in London and enjoy three-star meals in Paris. Travel agencies report bookings are up more than 100% over last year. Says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel: "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists. In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible." The strong dollar has also brought benefits to the American consumer. By making imports cheaper, the dollar's rise means that consumers have more...