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This desire-to-get-rich-quick gene seems permanently grafted onto American society, which probably explains the incredible success of shows like ABC's "Who Wants to be A Millionaire" and Fox's "Greed," (thank you, Fox, for telling it like it is). It also goes a long way to explaining the real reason why the stock market performed so atrociously last week. What could possibly more seductive than the prospect of making untold amounts of money from an IPO for a website, something that anyone with a modicum of technological savvy can create and maintain? How many times over...
...resisting his claims only because they fear he is being cruelly pressured by Castro. But the next moment family allies would revive charges that Juan Miguel beat his ex-wife and was too explosive to be a fit father. Juan Miguel himself had provided some ammunition: he told ABC's Nightline last January that he hadn't come to Miami yet because he was afraid he would take a rifle and "strafe the s.o.b.s" in Miami's Cuban-exile community...
...said he was surprised when he saw Cooper on ABC's "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire" Sunday night...
...ABC at first avoided showing the six-year-old saying he didn't want to go back to his father in Cuba--a statement that could have been coached. But Armando Gutierrez, the family spokesman and a veteran political operator with a heavy touch of Joe McCarthy in him, angrily accused ABC of reneging on a promise to broadcast that very statement. The next morning, the network aired it. And by week's end another family spokesman said Elian "expresses fear about being with his father. He's afraid he will be punished." Now, who could have put that idea...
...third star nearly three years ago, she said she had been sexually harassed during her 30-year Army career. Initially she handled these incidents privately, she said, but began reporting them as she rose through the ranks. "I was very impressed with the way it was handled," she told ABC in June 1997. Kennedy, who is retiring this year, filed a formal complaint about the '96 incident only late last year, after the Army gave the man involved a new and better job. If Army investigators believe her account, the general could face a court-martial...