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Brooks, who started thinking about becoming a priest in the early 1980s, finally made the switch this fall, enrolling at an Episcopal seminary in Cambridge...
...cable systems and the rest to reduce its debt (which had ballooned to $16 billion since the 1989 merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications). "What's driving this deal is technology, not finances," insists Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin. The key technology, he says, is the digital switch needed to route voice, text and video to each subscriber's home. Time Warner had planned to build the necessary switching system itself but realized about a year ago it needed help. "We underestimated the skills required," says Levin. "I think the cable-TV industry has underestimated the difficulty of entering...
...just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship, the No. 1-ranked Jennings says firmly, even blithely, "they can, but then I'll go back and be a reporter...
...have brought the Administration much closer to its goals. Eager to hold down costs, Hillary, Magaziner and allies have been talking about broadening the plan still further, to encompass health payments for auto-accident and workplace injuries and to have people stay enrolled in the program rather than switch to Medicare as they turn 65. The aim would be to reduce costs by avoiding duplication. But even if that happened, the government would have to find a way of capturing from patients and insurance companies the money saved, so that it could finance extension of coverage to the uninsured...
...what pollsters termed an "empowered Nancy Reagan." If she had her fingers crossed when she was nodding sweetly, baking chocolate-chip cookies and calling herself Hillary Clinton, how many other things might be fudged for political expediency? Republican fund raisers such as Floyd Brown see a bait-and-switch tactic that they hope to capitalize on by portraying her as massively influencing everything from the appointment of the deputy assistant undersecretary for technology transfer to a decision on whether the U.S. should bomb Serbian artillery lines. In his newsletter, Clinton Watch, Brown calls the President "a captive of the radical...