Television
Heather Graham is the force behind ABC’s derivative sitcom that can’t get beyond ‘Sex and the City.’
Jan. 9, 2006
ABC’s new “That’s Life” hasn’t Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows or any spark of genius or creativity.
March 10, 1998
Television: Series finished No. 122 last season, but the network has high hopes for the show as it returns Sunday.
Nov. 16, 1996
World & Nation
They were a group of about 75 Arabs and Jews, both American and foreign born, who were spending a remarkably sunny weekend in a windowless conference room in a hotel basement “rethinking the Middle East.”
April 12, 1987
Books
The American man of the 25th century has a bar code emblazoned on his arm, thinks that the polka music of his forebears is fabulous and is afraid of Chihuahuas.
Sept. 14, 2001
Sunday “Animal ER” / 6 and 10 p.m. TBS A frisky Labrador swallows a battery.
Nov. 17, 1996
Sunday “The Fixer” / 8 p.m.
March 8, 1998
A key middleman in the Iraqi bank loan scandal told an Agriculture Department official in the spring of 1990 that executives of Italy’s largest bank had known that a branch in Atlanta provided secret loans to Baghdad, according to documents and interviews.
Oct. 23, 1992
The Justice Department intended to file charges last year against a politically connected Jordanian businessman in connection with billions of dollars in illegal loans to Iraq but abruptly changed plans just days before the indictment was returned, according to newly obtained documents.
Oct. 14, 1992
In the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American news media were filled with attempts to answer the plaintive question, “Why do they hate us?”
April 13, 2003