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...STILL SEEM PRETTY CONFLICTED. DO YOU WISH YOU HAD BEEN NICER, OR FUNNIER? Well, for sure funnier. I think that one of the reasons people relate to me on some level is that they feel like they can see me as a human being, as a husband and a parent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John McEnroe | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

...still seem pretty conflicted. Do you wish you had been nicer or maybe funnier? McENROE: Well, for sure funnier. I think that one of the reasons people relate to me is that they feel like they can see me as a human being, as a husband and a parent. TIME: How can men's tennis be made more interesting? Wooden racquets? McENROE: I wish that we had never got away from wood in the first place. But I think that something needs to be done about the serve being the major weapon in the sport. It's less subtle than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Got Something to Say? | 6/16/2002 | See Source »

...used his mouthful of a title--Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families--to crusade for the government to take a more active role in promoting marriage. Horn believes that sustaining marriages is moral and cost efficient. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, vs. about one-fifth of children in two-parent families. Children from intact families are less likely to give birth out of wedlock or get in trouble with the law--both of which end up costing the government a bundle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going To The Chapel | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...beefed-up squad will include a lot of cops you haven't seen before--except that, really, you have. CBS is spinning off CSI: Miami; ABC has a remake of Dragnet from producer Dick Wolf, who has essentially been remaking Dragnet for 12 years on Law & Order, itself the parent to two spin-offs and a reality court series debuting later this month. And many of their new brethren seem to be following in CSI and L&O's flatfootsteps: connect-the-dots whodunits neatly solved in 44 minutes plus commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: New Cops On The Beat | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

More problematic for TiVo is that its partnership with DirecTV--its main distribution channel so far--seems shaky. If EchoStar wins approval to buy DirecTV's parent company, Hughes Electronics, TiVo may be squeezed out, because EchoStar stands to make more money off its proprietary box. EchoStar can also offer customers a price advantage: its subscribers don't have to pay additional subscription fees to use its PVRs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ad Zappers | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

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