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WITH PAT BUCHANAN SOUNDING OFF on everything from abortion to foreign aid, it's perhaps not surprising that he would have something to say about science as well. He's not descended from monkeys, the presidential candidate told Sam Donaldson on ABC's This Week, and he doesn't think children should be taught that they are. "I believe you're a creature of God," he said. "I think [parents] have a right to insist that Godless evolution not be taught to their children or their children not be indoctrinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DUMPING ON DARWIN | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...adding new hits like Seinfeld and Friends and capping it off with ER, the medical drama that is now TV's No. 1 show. It was Littlefield who found himself "laughing out loud" at a quirky comedy pilot called Third Rock from the Sun that was first brought to ABC; he put it on NBC in January and got credit for discovering the only bona fide new hit of the season. And it was Littlefield who took a big risk last season by moving Frasier, a hit on Thursday night, to Tuesday opposite ABC's powerhouse Home Improvement. Frasier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: STILL STANDING IN BURBANK | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

...before the home folks. It was one of those ineffable moments when the audience sensed almost from the start that this athlete is triumphant, truly unbeatable. He seemed to fly through the long program, set to the surging, romantic music of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Dick Button, the unflappable ABC commentator, shouted, "Now that's guts." His less experienced microphone partner, Brian Boitano, was reduced to giggles of delight. Ken Shelley, the last man to win the nationals in both single and pairs competition (in 1972) said, "You see so few performances that will stay with you. There were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: EDGE OF A DREAM | 3/18/1996 | See Source »

Peter Jennings, anchor of ABC's "World News Tonight," received the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism at the Kennedy School last night in front of an audience of more than 400 people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ABC Anchor Receives IOP Journalism Award | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

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