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...Indeed, no one wanted a rerun of the Austrian diplomatic sanctions, which divided the E.U. and were dropped after only eight months. "Everyone is reading into Berlusconi's election what they want to read into it," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations in Paris. "Conservatives are pleased to see the right back in power, the left is happy over Bossi's defeat and the avoidance of an Austria-style scenario. Yet everybody also realizes that Italy is a special case - that Berlusconi is unique, in a uniquely Italian situation...
...that they should all be part of a single country. Of course to make that happen would require dramatic redrawing of borders, which could only really be achieved through war. The nationalists believe that, with NATO's help, they won the war in Kosovo and were looking for a rerun in Macedonia. So far, it has not gone as well for them. But the recent defeats in Macedonia and southern Serbia are unlikely to make them give up the idea for good. So this is a question that the international community may have to address in the future...
Thursday is rerun day at the upfronts. On the last day of business, the last two networks to go, UPN and Fox, delivered a set of new schedules that were heavy on shows we've already seen - on other networks, in earlier incarnations or on that same network itself...
...scheduling logic behind this week's rerun is worth mentioning. March Madness is a hallowed tradition at CBS, and good demographics to boot - a pre-emption was out of the question. But if you're wondering why CBS, after pulling off last Wednesday's Week 8 with its ratings unruffled, didn't just run its Week 9 show Wednesday night, I've got two words for you: May sweeps. May sweeps is two weeks long, and the two final episodes of "Survivor 2" will do very big business. But 16 weeks just weren't enough to get "Survivor 2" from...
...cousins got hooked on robot fighting when it became a sort of geek tractor-pull attraction for the San Francisco-area nerdoisie in the mid-'90s. In 1999 they started mounting competitions for pay-per-view. (A similar program, Robot Wars, is a hit in Britain and is rerun on some PBS stations.) They shopped a series to cable networks, and Comedy Central bit, seeing a good fit for its young male audience. (Anyone who argues that demolition isn't comedy has obviously never seen David Letterman drop a watermelon off a six-story building...