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...fourth in the ratings. One series in its pipeline was based on an idea by then chairman Lloyd Braun: a fictionalized Survivor. ABC turned over the project to producer J.J. Abrams and his partner Lindelof, who elaborated the concept into a wild, character-driven mystery. The wisdom in TV then was that viewers were too busy to follow continuing story lines. Simple procedurals like CSI reigned. "We would have loved to have had a CSI," says Stephen McPherson, then head of Touchstone Television and now ABC Entertainment president. "But given our choices, it made a lot of sense...
...journalism, courage takes many forms. There is the courage of speaking truth to power, of taking the road less traveled, of taking exception to the conventional wisdom. But sometimes, for certain kinds of reporters, the courage demanded is the old-fashioned kind: to risk your life by venturing into harm's way, to be scared but not deterred, to put other people's safety ahead of your own. Our senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf has displayed both kinds of courage--which you will see in this week's extraordinary cover...
...lose to underfunded unknowns. In 1948 there was widespread disappointment with the Republican-held "do nothing" Congress. It turned out to be an easy target for President Truman's Democrats, who retook both chambers. Such waves can sneak up. In September 1994 a Congressional Quarterly columnist, voicing the conventional wisdom of the time, wrote that the G.O.P.'s chances of taking the House were "dim." Two months later, Newt Gingrich and company capitalized on disaffection with the Democrats that peaked on Election Day and pulverized the Dems' Capitol Hill majorities...
...After they relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious and lacking true liberal bona fides, she hired an adviser just to deal with them and even demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resign. Coincidence? Moderate Democrats say it with remorse, conservatives with glee, but the conventional wisdom is bipartisan: progressive bloggers are pushing the Democratic Party so far to the left that it will have no chance of capturing the presidency...
...valued personal friend and colleague of ours, we’re going to have a huge impact on campus life. And also like Derek C. Bok, who has trouble returning phone calls, we’re super geniuses who can’t wait to pour buckets of hot wisdom butter all over your heads. Let’s get started. Freshmen, this past week has probably been the best time of your life. By day, you’ve ruled Annenberg, met 25 of the “coolest” nerds that you never knew existed, and mapped...