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...honeymoon proved to be short-lived. I had just abandoned "The Facts of Life" during a commercial break in hopes of discovering some "Dr. Who" reruns when, after a brief stint channel-surfing, I found myself in the midst of a prostitution sting operation somewhere in southern Florida. Narration was unnecessary as I instantly recognized the genre of the program: it was a "Cops"-type show styled after "NYPD Blue" in a sick rendition of art imitating art imitating life. As usual, the setting was seedy and the cast of characters--from pot-bellied sheriffs to pouty chainsmoking whores--left...
What is most backbreaking about this April Nor'easter is that it comes at a time when most teams have just returned from their spring break trips, primarily from sunny locales around the globe. After an 11-game stint in Florida, for instance, the Harvard baseball team was met with a harsh New England reality as it stepped off the plane...
Ellwood served as academic dean during his last three years at Harvard, which were broken up by a stint in Washington during which he served as an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration. He resigned last year when it was clear the president would sign a Republican version of the welfare reform bill...
...parents, Bob recalls, "used the local theater as a baby-sitter. They'd drop us off at a triple feature and pick us up six hours later." (The boys must be grateful for the benign neglect of Miriam and Max Weinstein; the company is named after them.) After a stint as rock-concert promoters in Buffalo, New York, Harvey and Bob got into film distribution, making their rep with the 1989 hits sex, lies, and videotape and My Left Foot. Often they saw themselves as custom tailors, trimming foreign films to make them more accessible to U.S. audiences and earning...
Bollenbach, 54, is one of the sharpest pencils in corporate America, a veteran hotelier who joined Hilton last year after a stint at Walt Disney Co., where he helped engineer the Mouse's $19 billion buyout of Capital Cities/ABC. Araskog, 65, has lots of starch in his sheets. A West Pointer who once served in the National Security Agency, he has a perfect record in fending off corporate raiders...