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...have become much fiercer. While the prospects of urban warfare and of Saddam's unleashing chemical or biological weapons complicate the equation, they change none of the fundamentals. The benefit could be enormous. For one thing, the 22-member Arab League lacks any truly democratic government. Suppose "Iraq: The Rerun" ended with a transformed Iraq, standing as the sole democracy in the region, with a government that threatened no one. That alone sounds worth it tome...
...series of technology-related postponements to council elections, according to former council President Paul A. Gusmorino ’02. While this year’s delay is the longest in the past four years, the council’s fall 1998 election had to be entirely rerun because of technology glitches...
...with NBC, but nothing seemed to come of it. Then an article in the New York Times last week reported that CBS executives said they were in preliminary talks. It also quoted NBC executives as stating that Clinton once negotiated with their network. CBS declined to comment. "August is rerun season, so we've seen this episode before...and it has the same ending: nothing is imminent," says Clinton spokesman James Kennedy. The only way anybody will know for sure is if David Letterman is sighted reading the help-wanted ads in Variety...
...which passed on this charming but quirky comedy-drama. But now that Monk is a hit on cable--and ABC is starved for hits of its own--it seems ABC's opinion of the series has improved. The network exercised a clause that gave it the right to rerun the show, and it's now airing Monk repeats Tuesdays...
...common for network shows to cut rerun deals on cable (the Law & Order family, 24). But Monk's reverse trip shows how business has changed for ABC and TV as a whole. Monk was in development at ABC back in the heyday of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which now seems as quaint a turn-of-the-century phenomenon as gains on one's 401(k). Since then, the network has tumbled from first place to fourth in the ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned...