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Date: 12 March 1998
By Dan Barry
Dan Barry
Mayor Lays Down the Law On the Steps of City Hall**New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani administration says it will begin to enforce long-standing but little known rule about number of people allowed at news conferences on steps of City Hall; notes that events that attract more than 30 spectators can be held in City Hall Park (S)
Date: 11 March 1998
Editorial contends that in vindictive political move, Rep John Boehner has filed suit against Rep Jim McDermott accusing him of leaking to reporters contents of cellular phone conversation illegally taped by John and Alice Martin; notes that Martins picked up on their police scanner conference call that took place between Boehner, Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican leaders on Dec 21, 1996, day Gingrich agreed to House reprimand for submitting false information to House Ethics Committee, which was investigating his fund-raising strategies (M)
Date: 11 March 1998
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column on difficult time comedy writers are having trying to satirize White House sex scandals; says that if sex in Oval Office is now stuff of nightly news, what joke can possibly top it; quotes comedy writers Larry Gelbart, Trey Parker and Matt Stone (M)
Date: 12 March 1998
By Richard Norton Smith
Richard Smith
Author Richard Norton Smith Op-Ed article praises late pioneering newsman Fred Friendly, but deplores way today's electronic journalism has been reduced to soap opera and entertainment; drawing (M)
Date: 11 March 1998
By Robin Pogrebin
Robin Pogrebin
Steven Brill, creator of new magazine Content, enters into two-year contract with Bill Kovach, curator of Nieman Foundation for journalism at Harvard, under which Kovach will monitor magazine as outside ombudsman; Brill established Content to serve as aggressive mass market watchdog of media industry (M)
Date: 11 March 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Transworld Healthcare Inc ends talks on possible acquisition of Healthcall Group PLC valued at about $96.5 million (US) (S)
Date: 12 March 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Xerox Corp agrees to sell Crum & Forster Holdings Inc to Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd for $565 million in cash (S)
Date: 11 March 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Davox Corp agrees to acquire Answersoft Inc for about $85.4 million in stock (S)
Date: 11 March 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sykes Healthplan Services Inc agrees to buy Prudential Insurance Co of America's Prudential Service Bureau unit for $50 million in cash (S)
Date: 12 March 1998
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
International Home Foods Inc acquires Grist Mill Company for about $100 million and assumption of $5 million of Grist Mill's debt (S)