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...Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Middle East peace is a high-stakes effort, and after the fourth bombing, there was no question in Christopher's mind that U.S. policy was at a critical point. "This was the most risky derailment we have had," he told TIME. "My first reaction was what a sense of trauma it must be for the Israeli people and for Peres. You can try to deal with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which for the Israeli people was so much harder than most people realize because it was a Jew killing...
NETWORK EXECUTIVES ARE USED to being the butt of jokes, but few have endured the sort of abuse Warren Littlefield has. David Letterman loved to flash photos of the NBC programming chief on his show and make cruel remarks. In The Late Shift, HBO's recent movie about the late-night battle, Littlefield comes across as the arch network dunderhead, the guy who lost Letterman to CBS. In one scene, Littlefield (played as a smarmy nebbish by Bob Balaban) is so surprised by a phone call from Jay Leno that he races out of the toilet in his boxers, with...
...schedule in 1990 and quickly let it slide to third place. Littlefield has not only kept his job for nearly six years--an eternity in his profession--but has masterminded NBC's surprising rebound to No. 1 this season. The TV industry is coming to a startling realization: Warren Littlefield may be the smartest programmer in the business. In fact, one of his top lieutenants, Jamie McDermott, is reportedly being wooed by ABC to head its programming department...
...share of bad ideas (remember Madman of the People?). Kevin Bright, an executive producer of Friends, recalls that Littlefield early on thought the series needed an older regular to counterbalance the twentysomething stars. The producers disagreed. "Another network executive might have said, 'No! I want this older character.' But Warren trusted our instincts and went with...
...democracy be sustained without its basic economic issues resolved. The phenomenon of Buchanan's attraction lies not so much in any qualities of his own as in the conditions that we are allowing our country to slide into. People are eager for scapegoats and easy answers. ROXANNE WARREN New York City