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Don't blame the women for ESPN hiring practices
Sentinel ColumnistPaging an ugly woman. Please report with your microphone to Bristol, Conn. ESPN needs you so its female reporters will stop looking bad. They actually look good. But that's a bad thing because we don't give them the respect they deserve. If you're...Tags: Government, Illnesses, Eating Disorders, Baseball, Tim Tebow
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Charles Wick, U.S. Information Agency director, dies
LOS ANGELES - Charles Z. Wick, the long-serving director of the United States Information Agency who raised the agency's profile, doubled its budget and extended its ability to reach foreign audiences through new technology such as satellite television,...Tags: Los Angeles, Tommy Dorsey, National Government, Snow White, Colleges and Universities
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Reagan aide ran agency behind Voice of America
Associated PressLOS ANGELES — Charles Z. Wick, who as director of the U.S. Information Agency under Ronald Reagan expanded American broadcasts to Cuba and Russia but whose agency was accused of blacklisting liberals from a government program, has died. He was 90....Tags: Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan, Ralph Nader, Satellite Technology
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80-year old Stripper Still Taking her Clothes Off
KTLA NewsLAS VEGAS -- Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin. But the manicure of orange polish is flawless and new, and matches her signature tousled...Tags: Los Angeles, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Sexual Assault
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ESPN airs 'National Spelling Bee' semifinals
wertstv@gmail.comOff the Wall knows how to spell it. (I-T.) BEES, BEES EVERYWHERE. Where in the world is San Diego? The kids know that and more at the "National Geographic Bee" (today at 3 p.m., WLIW/21), hosted once again by Alex Trebek. Another group of smart...Tags: Television, Laura Dern, Kevin Spacey, John Cleese, Brooklyn Bridge
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'Palace Council' by Stephen L. Carter
Special to The TimesJuly 8, 2008 It's no surprise that in "Palace Council," the third of Stephen L. Carter's fables about black America's upper crust, success depends not on what you know but whom. With the right connections -- along with the right bloodlines and...Tags: Colorado, History, Books, Billy Dee Williams, Culture
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Discovery Channel's 'When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions'
Times Television CriticFor all but a few select humans, the way to outer space -- the real outer space, not the one where the Cylons live -- has been through a TV screen. You can climb to the top of Mt. Everest, or trek to the South Pole or go down under the sea and see it...Tags: Television, Space Programs, Film Festivals, NASA, Petroleum Industry
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Jim McKay dies at 86
Sun ReportersJim McKay, who in 1947 spoke the first words ever heard on Baltimore television and later became the model for the modern sports anchorman with his marathon effort amid a terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died yesterday of natural causes at...Tags: Athletics, Track and Field, Colleges and Universities, Cal Ripken, Baltimore Orioles, Terrorism
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Reardon Victim Goes Public, Blasts St. Francis Hospital
Courant Assistant Features EditorOn a Sunday afternoon in March 1970, Dr. George Reardon photographed me in degrading, sexually provocative poses in his office at St. Francis Hospital. It was just another day for the doctor. Afterward, he stopped at Arthur Drug on Farmington Avenue...Tags: General Motors Corp., Marketing, Miles Davis, Weather Reports, United States of America
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Tim Russert dies at 58
Sun Television CriticTim Russert, the hard-charging and fast-talking NBC journalist who was equally respected by politicians and journalists, died of a heart attack on the job yesterday, collapsing in the network's Washington bureau that he so capably led the past decade. Mr....Tags: Tim Russert, Heart Disease, Colleges and Universities, Political Candidates, Death and Dying
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Retirement TV scales back; 47 are laid off
Sun reporterRetirement Living TV, the Columbia-based seniors' network, has placed four shows on hiatus and laid off 47 workers, though some layoffs are expected to be temporary. Executives at the network, which launched in September 2006, say the move is not a sign...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Startups, Catonsville, Florence Henderson, Advertising
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Is Olbermann's snide act on MSNBC the future of TV news?
Special to The TimesFormer Times Television Critic Howard Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism in 1985, will be writing occasional commentaries about news on television and the Internet. It seems like a couple of centuries since His Holiness Pope Walter...Tags: Television, National Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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