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...debut last January, The Arsenio Hall Show has passed both Pat Sajak and David Letterman in the ratings, to take the No. 2 slot behind Carson's venerable Tonight show. Hall's show ranks No. 1 among the important under-35 audience. "I take the view that the public has elected me as a new late-night talk-show host," he says enthusiastically. "I've worked all my life preparing for it, putting together a platform -- my kind of guests, my kind of music, what I think is funny. I've been warming...
MOYERS: THE PUBLIC MIND (PBS, debuting Nov. 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). Public TV's resident big-think man is back with a four-part series on the role of image in modern life, especially as revealed through the media...
...fully accredited public high school, Harvey Milk was the subject of a short-lived controversy when it began classes four years ago. It was founded by the Hetrick-Martin Institute for Lesbian and Gay Youth, a ten-year-old organization established following the brutal gang rape of a gay teenager in a New York City bar. The school is named after Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor who was murdered with Mayor George Moscone by a disgruntled former city official...
Like others at Harvey Milk, Goldhaber is angry about what public schools do to problem kids. "I had a girl who had been told she was stupid at math and refused to study it. I begged her. I said, 'Please, please, please,' until she agreed. Now math is the first thing she wants to do. Other teachers promoted them, but subject matter left them behind...
...then, did Ortega venture so much opprobrium abroad to score points at home in a race that, by most accounts, he was already winning? The answer may lie in a poll published two weeks ago by the Nicaraguan Institute of Public Opinion. With nearly 90% of Nicaragua's 1.97 million voters registered, large numbers of them as the result of a Sandinista campaign, Ortega led the opposition by 26% to 21%. Yet the Institute's sample showed that 46% remained undecided -- more than enough to make any candidate for office extremely uneasy...