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...writes in the first sentence of Henry VI, Part 1). When prodigies break out in the fourth act of a Shakespearean tragedy, it is a sign that the time is out of joint: some fundamental link between man and his environment, as intrinsic as the link between parent and child, is broken...
...case in which major resources and talent are being lavished on cable channels watched by almost no one. espnews, a 24-hour sports-news channel launched in November, is available in only about 1 million cable homes. Its chief competitor, CNN/SI (which is owned by Time Warner, also the parent of TIME), has managed to corral just 4 million. The Fox News Channel and MSNBC, two network-backed news channels launched last year to compete with CNN, have passed the 20 million and 30 million marks, respectively. Yet their average audience, according to preliminary ratings leaked by industry sources...
...issue? They flipped a coin. Not without some maneuvering, of course. Team DreamWorks, which consists of Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Spielberg, was determined that Spielberg should follow a premonition and call tails. "I believe in Steven's premonitions," Katzenberg explains. But Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, Paramount's parent company, and a man who would negotiate a sunrise, insisted that Spielberg toss his own quarter while he, Redstone, made the call. The DreamWorkers gave in. Redstone, to their relief, called heads. Tails...
...thought it was too long and a bit of an imposition on our time," said a Harvard parent. The survey asked about 48 questions, she said, adding "Some of it was really not relevant...
Rapp said he learned a lot from his mother, a single parent who returned to school after her divorce and became a college professor...