Word: thursdays
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...entire nation, and the ratings were colossal even when Floyd was not. When the hurricane passed Florida by on Tuesday, the Weather Channel logged a record 2.5 million viewing households; its web site, www.weather.com, scored a record 23 million visits. The damage peaked when Floyd hit North Carolina early Thursday morning and then took off up the coast. By the time it hit New York that afternoon, Mayor Rudy Giuliani was trying to close the stock exchange (the traders wouldn?t go) and sent the Big Apple home early. The news outlets thundered, residents gossiped excitedly, and Floyd? Mostly, Floyd...
Former Undergraduate Council President Beth A. Stewart '00 took her political opinions to the national airwaves last Thursday, appearing as a guest on ABC television's late-night talk show "Politically Incorrect," hosted by comedian Bill Maher...
Think anything was more of a violation of something sacred than shooting up a school full of kids? How about a church full of kids? Police in Fort Worth on Thursday were scratching their heads for a motive after a man, identified by police as 47-year-old Larry Gene Ashbrook of Fort Worth, dressed in black and spewing anti-Baptist rhetoric, burst into a church service for teenagers Wednesday evening and opened fire, killing seven and then himself. He was "cussing royally," said one survivor, but he was calm enough to both smoke a cigarette and empty three clips...
...kindred spirit, but Bill Clinton is no Berliner. The U.S. president has urged Germany?s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to stay the course of welfare reform, the New York Times reported Thursday, but German voters have lost their appetite for their government?s Clintonesque "Third Way" policies. Schroeder?s ruling Social Democratic Party has been humbled in state elections twice in as many weeks as the party?s traditional support base stayed home to protest the chancellor?s proposed sweeping welfare cuts. Last Sunday?s elections in the former East German state of Thuringia saw Schroeder?s party not only turfed...
...looking out for the downtrodden members of the International Olympic Committee? Organizers are quick to assure the press that members of the IOC will be asked to pay for their own tickets. ?They?ll probably say no,? SLOC president Mitt Romney said at a press conference Thursday. ?But there?s no harm in asking.? Romney shouldn?t feel shy about billing IOC members; they're rumored to have some cash lying around...