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WITH TWO STROKES OF THE PEN, THE FEDERAL COMmunications Commission created a lot of static in the entertainment business. By adopting the most sweeping price controls in a decade, the agency angered the cable-television industry, ordering cable systems throughout the country to cut rates for most services up to 10%, a move that could save subscribers an aggregate $1.2 billion. Rates will now be regulated by Washington and local governments. While cable companies complained, consumer groups and local governments say the FCC did not go far enough. In a separate decision that left Hollywood studios fuming, the FCC allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Antennas in Show-Biz | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...third quarter, my pen runs out, just as I was trying to figure out if my fellow sportscasters were as interested in me as I was in them...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: A Night at the Boston Garden | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

...pen is from the Salt Lake City Marriott. (When did the Celtics last play the Jazz...?) The journalists are becoming more partisan. Is this allowed? I got booted from the dead show for cheering...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: A Night at the Boston Garden | 3/16/1993 | See Source »

...establishment sets the trends for African-American culture. They're not set by Blacks because they don't have the power. They got upset with me when I walked out of the establishment and set up my own establishment. I set up institutions, I set up publishing. I founded PEN Oakland--Poets, Essayist and Novelists--an international organization because I got tired of these country club PENs in LA and New York. We are an activist PEN. We've led two media boycotts because we believe the diversity movement has to challenge the media now. There...

Author: By Tracy K. Smith, | Title: A Talk With 'A Real Pro' | 3/4/1993 | See Source »

TALK ABOUT U-TURNS. WITH A PEN'S STROKE, PRESIdent Lech Walesa set in motion legal machinery that within weeks will transform Poland from a country with virtually no legal limits on abortion to one that possesses (next to Ireland) Europe's strictest laws on terminating pregnancies. Under the new measure, doctors can perform abortions only when there is proof of rape, incest, genetic abnormality in the fetus or an imminent threat to a mother's health. Noncomplying physicians are liable to two-year prison sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Church Triumphant | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

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