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...Wednesday, the bombs had already been dropping for nine hours, and he had no idea whether Milosevic would even agree to see him. Back in Washington, Talbott and his aides were also worrying about how Holbrooke would be received. At 7:30 a.m. Washington time, they were intently watching cnn. When cameras showed Milosevic smiling and shaking hands with Holbrooke on his arrival, they slumped back in their chairs relieved. "He's smiling! Milosevic is smiling!" one exclaimed...
...with a pile of stock valued at about $8.5 billion and, according to the deal's rough outline, make Turner a vice chairman of the combined company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...
...Time Warner executive. "He travels the world and comes up with great ideas. Some of them don't work, but the ones that do, work great." And the Time Warner deal may be one of them. "Turner teaches cats how to land on their feet," says a cnn correspondent who knows him well. "We are confident he'll do the right thing. He has confided to higher-ups--and I was there--that he would just as soon be a little fish in a big pond...
...game with the Cleveland Indians, he arrived at the ball park at 12:30 for a two-hour discussion with Oriole officials on the plans for "Streak Week." At 2:45 he had a photo shoot with the Rawlings Sporting Goods company. At 3 he did a CNN interview; at 3:30 two local TV interviews; at 4:05 an ESPN interview. After that he immersed himself in his pregame routine, stretching and laughing with Brady Anderson , taking his cuts in batting practice, prancing around his shortstop territory in infield practice--how can any man find so much enjoyment...
...early in 1993, Arpaio has organized his prisoners into chain gangs, housed them in tents in the scorching desert and made baloney a staple of their diet. Skin magazines and all broadcast TV stations have been banned. ("Too much violence,'' he says.) For free-time diversions, they get CNN, old Disney films and reruns of Newt Gingrich's 10-part course on revitalizing American civilization. "I want to make this place so unpleasant that they won't even think about doing something that could bring them back,'' says Arpaio. "I want them to suffer...