Word: reed
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...chairman Reed Hundt has promised that the agency will listen to the cable industry's complaints and consider refining the rules. Consumer advocates, though, scoff at cable's cries of pain. "When I hear a cable operator say he can't add a new channel," says Bradley Stillman, legislative counsel to the Consumer Federation of America, "I wonder how many shopping channels he's got on the air, or how many channels in which he has a financial interest. Channel decisions are driven by many factors -- and the industry is trying to blame...
...conservatives are looking for centrists to meet them halfway by supporting candidates like North and Quist, even if they appear to be potential losers in the general election. "If you're only there for the other party when the going is easy, it isn't a marriage," says Ralph Reed, who heads the Christian Coalition. "It's only an affair...
...Saliers will appear with actress and comic Whoopi Goldberg in the movie Boys on the Side. Goldberg plays a lesbian folk singer who runs into Indigo Girls in a Tucson, Arizona, bar. Together, they all sing a few Indigo Girls songs along with a cover of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side. Saliers and Ray enjoyed working with Goldberg ("Technically, her voice is only a little above average," says Ray, "but she's got soul and can really deliver a song"), although they disagree on whether more films are in their future. Says Ray: "I don't have...
...analyst with the Heritage Foundation. "The current system has already pulled the family apart. The system treats having a child out of wedlock as a favored life-style that's deliberately subsidized by the government. Nothing could be more harmful than that." True enough, but Clinton's point man Reed disagrees with the orphanage solution. "It's the kind of goofy social engineering that these same conservatives have made fun of for most of their lives," he says. "The whole point of welfare reform ought to be to reinforce families and a sense of parental responsibility -- not to take people...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Val Castronovo, Georgia Harbison, Ratu Kamlani, Sue Raffety, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...