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...Berlusconi's salesman's touch has served him well over the past 10 years. The television baron was a novelty when he entered politics in 1993, but he got elected by adapting American campaign tactics - colorful party conventions and slick campaign slogans - to an Italian audience. It didn't hurt that he controlled three television stations, a daily newspaper and several weekly magazines that were covering the election. But media savvy didn't help him in office, and he was written off the following year when his first shot at the premiership ended after only seven months, when his coalition...
...does not think the smaller population will hurt the program, since it improves the faculty-student ratio...
...Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman had come out of nowhere saying she was my children's mother ... It was like a punch in the stomach. People think that if you have been successful, you are insulated from normal feelings of hurt, but you aren...
...potential staff members, many of whom, unsurprisingly, had show-biz dreams. "There are some actors and actresses who have waited here, and every night they're Ethel Merman, playing to the cameras," says Rocco's maitre d', Alex Corrado. "I just try to be myself." It doesn't hurt that Corrado's self happens to be a rotund, New Jersey--accented Italian-American actor (he was eaten by wild boars in Hannibal) who earlier in the evening was singing opera in front of the restaurant. Says Burnett: "This cast would do great on Survivor, as far as dramatic television." Some...
...proposes to solve both problems at once as it rebirths itself as Spike TV, "the first network for men." TNN, which already drew a two-thirds-male audience with pro wrestling and sci-fi reruns, saw a chance to claim a new niche in cable. And it doesn't hurt that men, especially those under 35, are an attractive audience for advertisers, always on the lookout for another venue for Dumb and Dumberer ads. TNN picked Spike, says the network's president, Albie Hecht, because the name is "active," "smart and contemporary" and "unapologetically male" (as in, Is that...