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...when news and entertainment keep invading each other's turf, no one on television better embodies the ideal marriage of the two. Couric can grill Hillary Clinton or Bob Dole (so assertively that his wife had to step in and protest), probe delicate emotions with the Columbine families or Elizabeth Smart's parents, giggle excitedly with the dumbest Hollywood star and ogle the hot handbags for spring--all without a hint of strain. Her interviews on Today (the top-rated TV morning show for the past nine years) often set the news agenda for the day, and her hairstyles...
...exactly what the Tories wanted: to use the vote as a way of forcing a constitutional crisis that would allow them to pry the U.K. out of the E.U. and into some kind of associate membership. But Howard resisted Blair's attempt to shove the contest onto such favorable turf. Instead, he painted the constitution as a way station on the slippery slope to a European superstate, and the downside of rejecting it as minor. "If this constitution does not proceed as a consequence of a no vote in this country, Britain would remain a full participating member...
...polo season will be officially opened today. With all the excitement and color incidental to a polo event of first-grade importance, the Intercollegiate Championship tournament will be begun on the turf of the Westchester Biltmore Country Club, in Rye, when a Harvard team meets Princeton at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...flock of discount carriers is taking wing this year, bringing lower prices and tougher competition around the world. Orient Thai Airlines launched low-fare One-Two-Go in December to defend its turf from newcomers like AirAsia. Elsewhere in Asia, elite Singapore Airlines is rolling out the cheap seats on its new discount marquee, Tiger Airways, which launches later this year, partly to fend off upstart ValuAir, which has set a May debut...
...strange thing has happened since Sept. 11. Moore and some of his counterparts in other rural and small states have become convinced that their turf is just as threatened as Washington, New York and Chicago. One recent morning, Moore rattled off his doomsday scenarios: "We have two major interstate highways, and a significant proportion of the traffic is hazardous materials. We have two major railroads. Also, Wyoming has major mining, major electrical generating plants and coal-bed methane. Any one of those becomes a vulnerability for a terrorist." A former FBI agent, Moore works in an office decorated with...