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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television viewers, the merger should result in an explosion of cross promotions. Don't be surprised to see plugs for NFL football on MTV or specials about upcoming Paramount pictures airing on CBS. Hollywood producers fret that corporate priorities could distort programming decisions. "This can stifle creativity," says Brad Grey, chairman of management firm Brillstein-Grey and producer of HBO's The Sopranos. "These large companies want to put their own shows on the air first and foremost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CBS-Viacom Merger: A Media Giant Pops Up | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...dying. The question "Do you believe in God?" was apparently not asked by the killers in most of the deaths; this seems to indicate that they were merely taunting their victims. The final testimony of the students to their faith is compelling, but it is not martyrdom, and we distort the true meaning of the word by misusing it. KENNETH G. OLTHOFF Linthicum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...tell you that it is no walk in the park. The tabloids try to eat you alive every day. Much worse, they go after your family. The media and Hillary's Republican opponent would surely attack her as a carpetbagger, revisit her commodities investments and Whitewater representation, distort her views on a Palestinian state and serve up snide analyses of her marriage. But I think she can successfully rebut them all. We have elected two men from out of state--a Connecticut Republican, James Buckley, and a Massachusetts Democrat, Bobby Kennedy--to represent us in the Senate. Hillary has spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Case She Wants Some Free Advice... | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...proponents of the restoration to claim that the $4 million is spare money. There are plenty of demands to be met; these demands must be vocalized and the administration must be willing to listen. An aesthetic enhancement, perhaps, but the reconstruction of the Memorial Hall tower serves only to distort the concerns of Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

...proponents of the restoration to claim that the $4 million is spare money. There are plenty of demands to be met; these demands must be vocalized and the administration must be willing to listen. An aesthetic enhancement, perhaps, but the reconstruction of the Memorial Hall tower serves only to distort the concerns of Harvard University. MASAFUMI J. HOSHINO...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Hall Tower Is Proof Of Misguided Priorities | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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