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...each market, CBS could simply team up with the newly discarded Fox station. But that would mean being relegated to a UHF channel, a humiliating comedown for the No. 1-rated network. Or CBS could try to wrest away a current ABC or NBC affiliate. But that would probably trigger a bidding war that could wind up costing the network plenty...
...Dave Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican on the Finance Committee. To pass health reform, Durenberger told Clinton, "you have to start in the middle, even if that doesn't get you to universal coverage" immediately. Other Senators suggested that Clinton accept something less coercive, like Cooper- Breaux, but include a "trigger" that would impose a partial employer mandate if near universal coverage is not accomplished in a year or so. Though noncommittal, Clinton said he was willing to negotiate the definition and timing of universal coverage...
Twenty-one mountain-size comet fragments are speeding toward the giant planet. Their arrival in July could trigger the most spectacular celestial encounter ever seen in the solar system...
...film composer that Blanchard, 32, is now reaching wider audiences. In the gangster drama Sugar Hill he uses the sparse, bluesy sound of a jazz quintet to underline the flavor of tragedy and urban decay that permeates the story. "These characters pull the trigger at the drop of a hat," says Blanchard, "so a massive score would have overwhelmed the starkness I wanted to convey." In The Inkwell, a coming-of-age comedy set in a beach resort in 1976, and Crooklyn, Spike Lee's drama about family life in 1970s Brooklyn, Blanchard sketches dreamy melodies with strings and piano...
...provision in the omnibus crime bill passed by the Senate in November, would apply to a group of semiautomatic assault weapons that are among those increasingly favored by drug dealers, armed robbers and mass murderers. Unlike automatic weapons -- strictly regulated firearms that continue firing as long as the trigger is held back -- the guns targeted by the ban can discharge only one round with each pull of the trigger. But in every other respect, they are virtually identical to battlefield weapons that are designed for the purpose of killing or maiming large numbers of people as quickly and efficiently...