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Catholics in the province had been bracing for attacks ever since the Dec. 27 murder of Billy Wright, leader of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (L.V.F.), a fringe paramilitary group that is staunchly opposed to the interparty peace talks under way in Belfast. Wright, a hotheaded, macho killer, was gunned down in a daring execution-style murder inside the Maze prison by members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a violent Catholic splinter organization that is also strongly opposed to the talks, and has never agreed to join the cease-fire agreed to by the I.R.A...
...hoped to persuade Seinfeld to stick with it for one more year. Though the comedian had already told his co-stars of his intentions, Seinfeld and his managers, Howard West and George Shapiro, gathered in New York City the Sunday before Christmas for a final hearing with Robert Wright, president and CEO of NBC, and Jack Welch, chairman and CEO of General Electric, NBC's parent company. The discussion lasted two hours at Wright's Central Park West apartment. "What made me want to come back," Seinfeld says, "was how much they believed in me. That...
...effort to prove Seinfeld still had creative life in it, Wright and Welch gave Seinfeld a formal presentation titled "Seinfeld: A Broadcast Phenomenon," full of neat and colorful charts--SEINFELD MORE DOMINANT THAN EVER--demonstrating that, unlike most shows that reach a ninth season, Seinfeld's audience was still growing, at least in the only demographic category that matters, adults ages 18 to 49. In a particularly sneaky appeal to Seinfeld's ego, the presentation included a graph showing his show's gains over the past five seasons, in contrast to the losses for fellow stand-up Tim Allen...
...Wright '01, a mid-year candidate for a vacant seat on the Undergraduate Council whose platform calls for universal two-ply toilet paper, said he was excited by Lewis' decision...
BELFAST: The last place you want to see in the New Year is in a Catholic pub in Belfast, says TIME correspondent Barry Hillenbrand. The assassination in prison last weekend of Unionist militant Billy Wright, followed by the retaliatory strike on a Catholic disco, has left the city braced for a new wave of bloodletting...