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...Thanks to the O.J. travesty (Will we ever be rid of this national embarrassment?), all the soaps have suffered a ratings decline," bemoaned Mimi Torchin, editor in chief of Soap Opera Weekly, in a recent editorial. Last summer, in early July, the serials lost an entire week of programming when they were pre-empted for the Simpson trial's preliminary hearings, and they have never really recovered. "It's been a battle all along," says Susan Banks, director of on-air promotion for cbs Daytime. "We thought the viewers would come back, but they didn't." Since the beginning...
First of all, get rid of the chocolate section. With Cardullo's next door, there's not much need for a few aging truffles. (On the other hand, the candy department always offers a free cash register for buying notebooks at the beginning of the semester...
...That is a course that has had a lot of demons for us, myself included," Wylie said. "We got rid of those on Sunday...
...LIKE A TON OF BRICKS. SEEING Gingrich on TV brought back a youthful repressed memory of a story that disturbed me at an impressionable age and left an unanswered question. I was reminded of the Pied Piper. I understood the hiring of the piper to get rid of the rats and the refusal of the townspeople to pay him. The unanswered question was, "What happened to the children...
...adherents all but renounce their citizenship. Stewart Balint is a handsome, blue-eyed construction worker in Priest River, Idaho, whose family lost its farm to bankers. He told me his studies of law had led him to the understanding that government powers are not legally derived. "I've gotten rid of all my contracts with government," he said. "Rescinded them. Social Security, birth certificate. Driving license, hunting license. I know the law, and it's not a losing battle...