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...TIME and ABC News teamed up last October to travel to 30 towns across Iraq to see whether life had improved for ordinary citizens. We found the initial rumblings of an economic boom and, particularly outside Baghdad, the first glimmers of political freedom. But there were also large numbers of unemployed young men and widespread concerns about security. This month we retraced our footsteps, often interviewing the same people we met on our previous journey, to gauge the extent of change. We found that the country has indeed moved forward but that this progress has been matched by a corresponding...
...country are shaking. Many Iraqis blame the U.S. for creating this instability and for continuing to occupy the country, but few would want the troops to simply pull out now, in a climate ripe for civil war. In an informal survey of 1,350 Iraqis carried out for ABC and TIME, 93% of respondents said they think life will improve. But 85% complained that the coalition has yet to deliver on its promises...
Iraq A joint TIME and ABC News investigative team reports on where things stand one year later...
...report by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt found that the NHL's 30 teams lost $273 million last season. "The results were as close to catastrophic as I've seen in a business of this size," Levitt said. Last season the average regular-season game scored lower ratings on ABC than bowling, billiards and poker. The NHL's contract with ESPN and ABC ends this season and won't be renewed in its current form, which yields only $4 million a year per team--compared with $77 million...
...scandalized by the resourcefulness of the human spirit in fitting so many obscenities in the most ordinary declarative sentence." This, he says, was the point: Deadwood, S.D., was outside the bounds of the U.S., the law and propriety--just as Milch is now beyond the long reach of the ABC censors who dogged him on NYPD Blue, the show he created with Steven Bochco. Take a group of criminals and scofflaws, mostly men, risking ruin or murder to seek their fortunes--who then blow said fortunes on hookers, craps, dope and booze--and in any century, their epithets will...