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Answer: because all of American free television with national scope has been seized by the likes of General Electric, Westinghouse, Disney and Rupert Murdoch. The giant-corporate agenda has become the sole agenda. Even the Public Broadcasting System has been purged of temperate Robert MacNeil, reducing its NewsHour to Republican softball pitcher Jim Lehrer--a guaranteed development now that every program begins with "Thanks" to Exxon or "Thanks" to AT&T or "Thanks" to ADM. You don't bite the hand that feeds...
...recent expression of the policy came earlier this month when U.S. State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, commenting on Yeltsin's dismissal of Deputy Prime Minister Anatoli Chubais--the sole surviving pro-market official in the Cabinet--asserted that it was "absolutely essential" for Yeltsin to "reaffirm the reform basis of the Russian government...
...since 1992 orphanages have used the $3,000 "donations" made by adoptive parents to improve facilities and staffing. Janice Neilson of the World Association for Children and Parents bridles at the Human Rights Watch claim that a high mortality rate persists at a facility identified as Henan province's sole orphanage. Neilson says that if this is the same institution she works with--who knows? the report claims the location is "unclear"--the mud-walled building has been razed and a new facility is being built. When it is completed, WACAP will help establish a rehabilitation unit for disabled kids...
...lump-sum payment of $1.1 million because technically he had been terminated from his former positions--even though he became cochairman and co-chief executive of the parent of the merged companies, Health Systems International, a job that paid a base salary of $865,000. "I gave up my sole authority as president, chairman and ceo," says Greaves, "and my contract said if that happens you get paid out your contract. So as any businessman would--anybody would--I exercised my rights." In 1994, when the merger took effect, his income, including the termination payment, bonuses and base salary, would...
Intensity, by Dean Koontz (Knopf; 308 pages; $25), is expert schlock by a writer who has specialized in horror. No creatures from beyond the grave here, just that reliable old formula, babe in distress. Chyna Shepherd is the sole survivor after a fairly efficient thrill killer invades a house where she is a weekend guest and murders everyone else. She's terrified and unarmed, but naturally, instead of calling the cops, she stows away in the killer's motor home as he escapes...