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...earlier, calmer part of the week, MSNBC had made a creditable debut. The well-hyped challenger to CNN brought some big guns to the competition: top NBC correspondents like Andrea Mitchell and Gwen Ifill contributed updates on major stories during the day, and network stars like Tom Brokaw, Katie Couric and Bob Costas took turns as host of a nightly interview show called InterNight. (Just how long they will continue to do double-duty for MSNBC remains to be seen.) With its pleasantly bustling set, slick presentation and hot-wired anchors, MSNBC made CNN look a little dowdy...
Fashion-design house Donna Karan International, considered the pick of the recent litter, dropped a stitch or two since its IPO rose from $24 to $28 at its June debut. The stock ended last week...
Martins, who plays professionally for the Hartford organization and saw ice time during several games for the Whalers last season, said he received a letter from Breistroff in April congratulating him on his National Hockey League debut...
Since its debut 30 years ago, the members of the doomed Tyrone family have become stock characters on the American stage, as familiar, and as problematic, as our own families. Edmund (Michael Stuhlbarg), the character representing O'Neill himself, is the frail, morbid young poet who in the course of the titular "day" finds that his mysterious "summer cold" is a case of deadly consumption, or tuberculosis. Worry over his weakening condition has driven his mothlike mother, Mary (Claire Bloom) to succumb to her addiction to morphine, a drug she has been hooked on since Edmund's birth 24 years...
...debut of SLATE, Microsoft's much awaited webzine, got plenty of attention from netizens last week, and not just for its catchy name. Seems the 'zine kicked some versions of Netscape Navigator, the Web's most popular browser, into an unrecoverable crash--and added grist to the Microsoft-wants-to-rule-the-world mill. Instead of seeing Slate's snappy commentary on politics and culture (excerpts of which also appear in TIME), Netscape 1.0 viewers were treated to a page of gibberish followed by a shutdown. Was the snafu a sign of incompetence, or was it, as conspiracy buffs asked...