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...that affair involved over a half-million good guys, a pretty formidable villain (complete with evil, soup-strainer moustache and ominous-sounding name) and the deaths of more than 100,000 of the bad guy's under-lings. So death for death, the Simpson case is probably the most potent media monopolizer the world has ever known...
...Beijing has been wedded to the fortunes of North Korea's founder, a man Mao Zedong embraced as a strong ally. Over the years the friendship sweetened and soured, but the alliance remained fast. Evidence that Deng Xiaoping's China was withholding approval of the designated heir was a potent signal. Of the dynastic passing of power, a Chinese academic remarked, "China cannot criticize, but we are not accustomed to this method." According to some reports, Deng advised Kim Il Sung in 1992 not to go through with the family legacy...
Well, not quite everybody. For a viewer sympathetic to Schwarzenegger's and Cameron's best selves -- the ironist with muscles and the mordant fabulist -- True Lies is a loud misfire. It rarely brings its potent themes to life. And it seems not to realize that Harry is less a hero than a wife-abusing goon...
...past year, the network that Larry Tisch is credited with turning around has experienced positives and negatives in equal measure. CBS had become the first network to lead the ratings in daytime (with hot soap operas like The Young and the Restless), prime time (with aging but still potent shows like 60 Minutes and Murphy Brown) and late night (with the boffo debut of David Letterman). But its triumphs on the air were clouded by fiascos in the conference rooms. Losing the affiliates to Fox was only part of it. The Eye web had fumbled its rights to N.F.L. games...
Approaching the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a flurry of decisions, among them a ruling requiring governments to better justify an actions that amounts to the taking of private property. The Justices also agreed to decide next term the politically potent question of whether states can impose term limits on their representatives in Congress...