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Have you heard the one about the two comedy networks that decided to merge? It goes like this: for nine months now, two competing cable channels have been offering rival menus of round-the-clock comedy. On one side of the TV dial is the Comedy Channel, run by Time Warner subsidiary HBO. On the other side is HA! the TV Comedy Network, owned by Viacom International, which also operates MTV. The problem: both channels are losing money. Hoping that two can laugh as cheaply as one, the jousting jokesters disclosed last week that they would merge to form Comedy...
Busiest Baby Season As the tick, tick, tick of the biological clock sounded ever louder, aging baby boomers got down to the business of having a baby boomlet of their own. Among Hollywood's hottest couples who turned up around town with baby in tow: Patti Scialfa and Bruce Springsteen; Sigourney Weaver and director Jim Simpson; Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw...
...moment in the presidency. The big grandfather clock can be heard ticking between Bush's words. A Christmas tree festooned with gingerbread men and candy canes stands against the wall of the Oval Office, just across the hall from the standards that proudly hold streamers from 352 military battles. Is history on his side in this...
...inside. At night all lights stayed off. We used only the glow from a TV set fixed on mute. We had to beware of everything we did. In an empty building, something as simple as dropped silverware makes a racket. To cut noise I took showers at 3 o'clock in the morning. Even our cooking smells in outside hallways became a danger signal...
...forces sat and waited, we began to worry about starving. We decided to store all the food we could get our hands on. Together our group had several thousand dollars in cash. So Imad began to buy up more supplies. He delivered food between midnight and 2 o'clock. On my computer we began to keep track of our provisions. Now we could tell how many cans of tuna we had, how many kilos of dry beans. We even factored in how much protein we had, how many calories. That computer gave us great comfort. By October we figured...