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Affiliation with a network no longer offers the protection from local competition it once did. To stand out amid increasingly stiff competition, many local stations are turning to expanded news programs. Journalism is local television's biggest money spinner, typically accounting for at least a third of a station's revenues and an even higher share of profits...
...Thanksgiving represents more than a litany of good tidings and an amalgam of turkey-time truisms. There is a stubborn rectitude to the holiday itself, reminiscent of its stiff-necked Pilgrim forbearers. More than any other date on the calendar, Thanksgiving has remained private and personal, devoid of the tinsel trappings that mar the rest of contemporary life. On this ecumenical holiday, Americans are allowed to be as prayerful or as secular as they choose, with no one complaining that they have somehow taken the thanks out of Thanksgiving...
...told U.S. District Judge Robert Potter just before the sentencing. "I have sinned. I have made mistakes. But never in my life did I intend to defraud anyone." That last-ditch bid for leniency made little impression on the judge, known as "Maximum Bob" because of his penchant for stiff sentences. "Those of us who do have a religion are sick of being saps for money- grubbing preachers and priests," Potter angrily told the defendant. Bakker, 49, was quickly bound in handcuffs and leg-irons and driven to a federal facility in Talladega, Ala., to begin serving his time...
...stiff prison term once again drew attention to the glaring inequalities that often characterize sentencing decisions in the U.S. Despite efforts at reform, much of the nation's criminal sentencing system is still based on an idiosyncratic set of decisions made by crime-busting legislatures and individual trial judges. New York State law, for example, sets extremely broad parameters for various crimes -- one to 25 years for a bank robbery, 1 1/2 to 15 years for first-degree assault -- but leaves it to the discretion of each judge to fix the actual sentence. The theory behind this system is that...
...televangelist draws a stiff 45-year prison term, while the average American murderer gets only 20 years. Is the U.S. sentencing system fair or glaringly unequal...