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...television viewers, home satellite dishes have been too costly and cumbersome to win much popularity except in rural areas that lack cable TV. But last week four communications companies disclosed plans for a $1 billion satellite service that could transform American viewing habits when it becomes available in 1993. The four partners -- NBC, Cablevision Systems, Hughes Communications and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. -- said their Sky Cable service will beam 108 channels to homes equipped with a 12-in. by 18-in. rectangular dish that will cost about $300. Users of the new system, which could carry high-definition...
Nothing ever seems to change in Cuba -- except for the shadows cast on the island by the outside world. Yet the government of Fidel Castro, 63, seems as convinced as ever it is the rest of the planet that is out of step. While a hurricane of change sweeps across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, toppling leaders and shredding communism, Cuba stands like a lonely lighthouse of ideology, battered but unyielding. "We must dig in with the ideas of Marxist Leninism more than ever," Castro has declared. "Long live rigidity!" Signs along the country's roads exhort, SOCIALISM...
...average citizen has no power over Trump except the sovereign right to ignore him. The exercise of optional knowledge. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, if a 90-story grandiosity occurs in Gotham and no one is there to witness it, then have either of these events occurred? The second event undoubtedly has. Trump involves certain pharaonic consequences. He sprays his name on buildings and airplanes: a very, very rich graffiti artist. Trump is a man whose ads speak of his apartment buildings as enactments of his "philosophy." Hugh Hefner...
...EXCEPT for one thing. They've got the wrong number...
...Except one--seeing Cleary step down as coach to assume the role of athletic director...