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...Although official treatment of the religious in China has greatly improved in the last two decades, it remains profoundly objectionable. The Chinese government has tried to co-opt religion, especially the Christian churches, by creating state-sanctioned churches that obey official dictates and regulations...
...providing 80% of the cash flow. Says Levin: "If some people think that AOL has been sold at too much of a discount or Time Warner has been sold at not a high enough premium--if we get those disparate reactions--then we've probably done the right thing." Although both companies have done handsprings to portray the combination as a merger of equals, Wall Street has since made it clear that it considers AOL more equal than Time Warner...
Levin's conversion to the wired future came in 1975, although the wires were different then. He was working for a marginal Time Inc. division called Home Box Office. The HBO idea--to zap movies right into the living rooms of average Americans--was simple, easy to understand and almost universally regarded as nuts. This was particularly true since HBO was incinerating money. Levin knew he had to gamble, and in a move that foreshadowed a liking for big deals, he persuaded Time Inc.'s conservative board to burn another $7.5 million for a slot on the very first communications...
...lesson of Moesha is not whether gang banging or being a well-adjusted teen virgin fits the black experience. Both do. Both fit the white experience too, although no one would suggest that white characters must be either Tony Soprano or Dawson Leery. Representativeness--one show expected to carry a whole race--is the curse of minority-cast series when so few are on TV. City's unusualness as a drama is a big publicity boon but also a burden. "Minorities in the business are rooting like hell for this show," says Charles Holland, a black writer. "The stakes...
...Great Plains (1989) Ian Frazier transformed himself from a supremely hip New Yorker humorist into a serious but never somber chronicler of the American heartland. In On the Rez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 311 pages; $25) Frazier entertainingly continues this investigation, although his interest is now concentrated on a specific patch of the wide-open spaces, the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Why this place and these people? While researching Great Plains, Frazier met and became friends with Le War Lance, a Sioux man with colorful if not always credible stories...