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House Speaker Newt Gingrich is asking national television networks to give him a half hour of free air time for an April 7 speech to outlinehis post-"Contract" agenda. While CNN quickly said yes today, NBC, ABC and CBS have yet to respond to Gingrich's request for a prerogative traditionally reserved for presidents. "It's certainly symptomatic of his asserting himself as a national personality above and beyond the status most speakers have had," saysTIME Washington contributor Laurence Barrett, who noted that the air time could help Gingrich improve his image. The latest TIME poll shows Gingrich's "negatives...
...roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment--a task that is especially hard since they all seem to be home all the time. The title character in ABC's Ellen runs a bookstore-coffee bar, but it must be the least demanding job in America. The series established its lazy pace on its first episode last spring, in which Ellen (played by stand-up comic Ellen DeGeneres) had to renew her driver's license. Waiting in line...
...years ago. Had we known then what we found out last week, Louganis might have been hailed even louder and longer than he was. Then again, the greatest diver anyone has ever seen might not have been allowed to compete. Appearing with Barbara Walters on abc's 20/20 last Friday in conjunction with the publication this week of his autobiography, Breaking the Surface (Random House; $23), Louganis revealed that he was hiv-positive when he competed in Seoul and that he now has AIDS. Imagine the uproar then-it was cacophonous enough last week-over the cut Louganis received when...
Although the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) network has refused to allow the committee to rebroadcast its news programs because of copyright laws, Silberstein said he hopes that international networks such as CNN and local public television stations such as WGBH will be willing to participate in the "Harvard TV" program...
...Zelnick, Pentagon reporter for ABC News, said the book adds an appropriate degree of humility to the American victory in the Gulf...