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...corporate takeovers of the 1980s, the reagan Administration was a wallflower at the orgy. Free-market philosophy discouraged government from interfering in corporate combinations. Capital Cities lapped up ABC. R.J. Reynolds gulped Nabisco. Under George Bush the outlook shifted a bit, but when understaffed government lawyers went to court, they mostly lost. Anne Bingaman, Bill Clinton's chief of antitrust, roared into work promising a different world. As a warning shot she got Congress to fund 61 new antitrust attorneys. At a Washington conference a few weeks ago, she gave the word once again to companies that try to corner...
...TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says there is a hanging question: "Why did he wait so long to tell people?" -- especially since Louganis tested HIV positive shortly before the Seoul Games. One possible explanation: Louganis' book, which touches on the subject, goes on sale next week. In an interview with ABC's 20/20 airing Friday, Louganis explains that he was "paralyzed with fear" that his blood would contaminate the pool but kept quiet because his condition was "an incredibly guarded secret." Experts said there was virtually no chance the trickle of blood constituted a threat to any other swimmer. The doctor...
...week's end, the White House had sent Foster out to defend himself-- though not, Washington insiders point out, to anyone who will actually decide his fate. The doctor appeared first on abc's Nightline--``a pretty dignified public forum,'' in the words of an Administration source. As a sign of support, Administration officials insisted that host Ted Koppel interview Foster in the White House; when Lani Guinier found herself fighting to save her nomination as head of the civil rights division of the Justice Department in 1993, she appeared on Nightline against Administration wishes. Foster also spoke last Friday...
...those who might help her in her quest to be taken seriously in front of 750 students and invited guests at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. To give an idea of just how much effort went into this event, says one of her advisers (who reportedly included ABC's Peter Jennings and the Los Angeles Times' Robert Scheer), consider that it took over 20 years for Streisand to return to the stage for her 1994 concert tour, and that even her between-song banter had to be put on a TelePrompTer. But that was easy compared...
...numbers game continued Wednesday, when Foster appeared on ABC's "Nightline" and said that, after carefully checking his records, he had performed 39 abortions in his life--a far cry from "less than a dozen...