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Elizabeth Bishop, one of my favorite poets, wrote a poem which has been my lesson for the summer. It's called, "One Art," and in it the speaker learns to accept the lack of control, the randomness of Fate, the pain, which all accompany loss. It reads...
...today, White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers said the U.S. was still pushing for a United Nations resolution to "remove the dictators by any means necessary." Meanwhile, in Port-au-Prince, an army-backed effort to whip up opposition to possible U.S. intervention flopped when a Roman Catholic bishop barred a priest from conducting a Mass commemorating Haitians killed in the July 28, 1915, U.S. invasion of Haiti...
...deal does hold, most industry analysts see it as a smart move toward the future by CBS, a conservative outfit with a maturing lineup of shows in that old fogey of the video market, network television. "Diller will create synergy," says Bishop Cheen, a Kagan analyst, "by wearing three hats. Number one, the network hat, and there's he's a Hall of Famer. Two, the programming hat: he will create good and cheap programming. And third, merchandiser -- a hat that has never been worn at CBS with any great authority. He'll merge two favorite American pastimes: shopping...
...half a billion into cable or other technology associated with the infohighway.) In reality, it is likely to set off a game of affiliate musical chairs that will further erode traditional network viewing patterns. "The once sacrosanct relationship between networks and affiliates has started to come unglued," says Bishop Cheen, a senior analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, a media research firm, "and I don't know if it can ever be put back together...
...those of the English Baroque composer whose anthems he had clamped to his ears. At 75, wire-thin, white-haired and dressed in his working uniform of gray suit, white shirt and red tie, he more than ever fits Russell Baker's description of him as "the wise Episcopal bishop." Raised in a distinguished Old South family fallen on hard times, Kempton might be describing himself when he writes of the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph: "His only vanity is his manners...