NEWS LITE : HUME RELISHING ROLE OF UNDERDOG.Brit Hume's competitive fires are roaring again now that he's joined the fledgling Fox News Channel. After 23 years at ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Hume left his job as ABC's White House correspondent in December to oversee Fox's operations in Washington. ``I remember when I was at ABC News
ABC News is a division of American television and radio network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. Its current president is David Westin. when it was the underdog,'' Hume says in the Aug. 30 TV Guide. ``Every slight that comes along makes you burn with greater determination. I haven't felt that way in years. It's great.'' And Hume isn't shy about his conservative views. ``I think there is a perception (among journalists) that the ordinary, average liberal viewpoints represent neutrality,'' Hume said. ``I don't think they do.'' Fox News Channel took to the air Oct. 7, joining CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. and MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company as cable all-news networks. Rawls aids seniors in benefit concert Suave suave adj. suav·er, suav·est Smoothly agreeable and courteous. [French, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin su crooner Lou Rawls lent his vocal cords vocal cords: see larynx. Vocal cords The pair of elastic, fibered bands inside the human larynx. The cords are covered with a mucous membrane and pass horizontally backward from the thyroid cartilage (Adam's apple) to insert on to a good cause - again. A weekend concert in Billings, Mont., by the charity-minded Grammy Award winner helped Deaconess dea·con·ess n. 1. A Protestant woman who assists the minister in various functions. 2. Used as a title prefixed to the surname of such a woman: Deaconess Brown. Noun 1. Classic sponsors raise $100,000 for Alzheimer's research, cancer treatment and independent living for senior citizens. Helping older people is a special concern of Rawls, who was raised in Chicago by his grandmother. His 90-minute concert featured fan favorites like ``You'll Never Find'' ``Since I Met You Baby'' and ``Tobacco Road.'' Rawls, who has raised millions of dollars for African-American colleges and needy children, said spending a week in a coma after a car crash years ago made him a better person. ``I saw many reasons to live. I realized I had an immature attitude about life and I began to learn acceptance, direction and understanding,'' Rawls said. Milli Vanilli member regrets fraud role Half of Milli Vanilli is ready to face the shame. The saccharin saccharin (săk`ərĭn), C7H5NSO3, white, crystalline, aromatic compound. It was discovered accidentally by I. Remsen and C. Fahlberg in 1879. Pure saccharin tastes several hundred times as sweet as sugar. pop duo won a 1989 Grammy after hits like ``Blame it on the Rain'' and ``All or Nothing.'' In late 1990, Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus were stripped of their award after it was revealed that neither actually sang on Milli Vanilli records. ``It's still difficult to talk about,'' Morvan says in the Sunday New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . ``It's a part of my life that I try to push away.'' Morvan cooperated with the VH1 cable music network's look at the scandal in its new series ``Behind the Music,'' spending several hours discussing the lip-synching scandal and the tough years since then. ``I put my life in their hands,'' Morvan says of VH1 interviewers. ``But I've always wanted to do something on the whole (scandal). The truth about what happened should come from me.'' Philanthropist aims to soften U.S. drug laws Philanthropist George Soros George Soros Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930, George Soros is considered by many to be one of the world's greatest investors. A famous hedge fund manager, Soros managed the Quantum Fund, a fund that achieved an average annual return of 30% from 1970-2000. says he's using his wealth to fight America's drug policies because politicians lack the courage to do it themselves. ``Our drug policy is insane,'' he said in an interview in this week's Time magazine. ``And no politician can stand up and say what I'm saying, because it's the third rail - instant electrocution electrocution Method of execution in which the condemned person is subjected to a heavy charge of electric current. The prisoner is shackled into a wired chair, and electrodes are fastened to the head and one leg so that the current will flow through the body. .'' The billionaire is giving $15 million over the next five years to groups opposing America's war on drugs. He says the ``unintended consequences'' of the war, including the criminalization crim·i·nal·ize tr.v. crim·i·nal·ized, crim·i·nal·iz·ing, crim·i·nal·iz·es 1. To impose a criminal penalty on or for; outlaw. 2. To treat as a criminal. of a vast class of drug users, far outweigh the limited and costly success of interdiction INTERDICTION, civil law. A legal restraint upon a person incapable of managing his estate, because of mental incapacity, from signing any deed or doing any act to his own prejudice, without the consent of his curator or interdictor. 2. . ``I do want to weaken the drug laws. I think they are unnecessarily severe,'' he said. The currency trader who supplied his native Hungary with photocopiers to fight censorship says he has turned his attention to the United States to stir debate on the role of its government. In the issue that hits newsstands today, Soros says he has spent more than $90 million in recent years to promote less severe drug laws, needle exchange programs needle exchange program Syringe exchange program Public health Any program intended to slow the spread of AIDS among IV drug users, in which a governmental or charitable agency exchanges sterile needles for dirty, potentially HIV-contaminated needles used by IVDAs for addicts and research to reduce the number of people in jail. Mental gymnasts compete; Brain games test creativity, memory How many ways can you use a soft boiled egg? What are the similarities between Princess Diana and an orange? South African Philip Bateman let his imagination fly and won a gold medal for creative thinking at the first annual Mind Sports Olympiad in London. Dominic O'Brien of Britain memorized the order of a shuffled pack of cards in 41.73 seconds on his way to the world memory championship. Nearly 2,000 mental gymnasts from 58 countries have spent the past week competing for medals in 39 mind sports from around the world - from chess, bridge and the ancient Chinese game Go to Fanorona, the 500-year-old national board game of Madagascar, and Rummikub, a tile game first marketed in Israel in the 1950s. ``You have a sports Olympiad which brings together people who run and jump. Why not an Olympiad of the brain, which is the most important part of our body and always will be?'' said Tony Buzan, an Olympiad organizer and author of 20 best sellers on the mind and learning. The competition, which ended Sunday, was open to anyone, with entrance fees ranging from $20 to $40 for adults, and cheaper fees for children. A total of $160,000 in prizes was awarded, plus four round-trip tickets to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on the Concorde. Bateman, 52, the creative director of the Heritage Collection mail-order company, said he read about the Olympiad a week ago and flew from South Africa to compete because the creative thinking event sounded like something ``akin to my soul.'' So, how many uses could he think of for a boiled egg? ``I thought of 40 different ways,'' he said. ``You can grind it, expand it, evaporate it, use it to warm your hands, use it as face cream, paint with it.'' And the similarities between Princess Diana and an orange? ``They've both got these huge family trees,'' he said with a broad smile. ``They're both fairly juicy. They're both slightly delicious.'' CAPTION(S): 4 Photos PHOTO (1) George Soros Billionaire currency trader (2) Bharat Patel, left, and Graham Walker square off over the chess board Sunday at the first Mind Sport Olympiad in London. Associated Press (3) Morvan (4) Hume |
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