ER Tops Emmys With Eight Wins. Frasier Leads Comedy
The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards saw ER tie records with eight wins while NYPD Blue claimed best drama. Frasier won top comedy and five Emmys overall, including best comedy actor for Kelsey Grammer. Candice Bergen repeated as lead comedy actress. David Hyde Pierce won supporting actor. Christine Baranski and Julianna Margulies won supporting acting awards. Raul Julia posthumously won for The Burning Season. Glenn Close led in miniseries acting.
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Frasier
Hill Street Blues
Stump
Kelsey Grammer
Cybill Shepherd
Jason Alexander
Grammer
Radio Psychia
Trist
Candice Bergen
Murphytown
Mandy Patinkin
Chicago Hope
David Hyde Pierce
Pierce
Christine Baranski
Julianna Margulies
Ray Walston
Henry Bone
Picket Fences
Chico Mendes
Merel Poloway
Julia
Glenn Close
Margarethe Cammermeyer
Prasien
Palestinians seize control of West Bank towns and more
Palestinians took control of trade, agriculture, fuel distribution, labor rules, and the state insurance company in Jenin and Qalqilya as PLO and Israeli negotiators near a broader self-rule deal. Postal services and about 70 other departments are set to transfer, with Hebron's control remaining the block.
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Qalqilya
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Hebron
Brazil's new indigenous tribe found in Amazon deep in Rondonia
An expedition led by Marcelo Santos from Brazil's Indian agency reported contact with two Indians speaking a previously unknown language deep in Rondonia. On Sept. 3 they found two huts amid gardens of corn, bananas, manioc and yams, suggesting undiscovered tribes may remain in Brazil's vast forest.
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Amazon Rain Forest
Brazil
Indian Agency
Rondonia
Rio
Marcelo Santos
Santos
U N delegates push abortion review at world women’s conference
Delegates from over 70 countries approved a measure urging governments to review laws penalizing illegal abortions and adopted a second provision affirming a woman’s right to decide freely on sexuality and reproductive health. The steps, seen as progress toward decriminalizing abortion, face final drafting review by all 181 delegations. Critics from Guatemala voiced disagreement with the process amid intense debate including Vatican and some Muslim states.
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Sally Ethelston
Population Action International
Women's Health Coalition
Guatemala
Vatican
Leeson’s secret 88888 account hid Barings collapse stemmed from losses
Nick Leeson, 28, activated a secret 88888 account to cover a colleague’s $35,000 mistake, triggering Barings Bank’s $1.8 billion Tokyo bets collapse. In a Frankfurt jail interview, he recalled panic and mounting losses, with Barings finally taken over by ING after years of extraordinary risk.
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Singapore
Nick Leeson
Britain
Barings
Leeson
Tokyo
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CBS
60 Minutes
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Lisa
Malaysia
ING
Bank of England
Skydiving Plane Crashes Into House Killing All Aboard
In Shackelfords Virginia a Beechcraft Queen Air carrying 10 skydivers and the pilot crashed near a row of houses and exploded. A man on a porch died and the plane’s passengers were killed. a nearby resident VinCent Harris Jr was not harmed. Fire damaged the home and neighbors sought to rescue the child as investigators from FAA and NTSB probed the crash.
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Tidewater
Virginia
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Harris
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Arlene Salac
Federal Aviation Administration
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Ms. Salac
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Online events list from major computer services pages
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Susan Weissman
eWorld
Harriet Woods
National Women’s Political Caucus
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Missouri
Carl Hiaasen
America Online
Miami Herald
South Florida
Time Online
Globe
Dan Gookin
Bob LeVitus
Microsoft
Business Week
Coliseum
Michael Robinson
Smithsonian Online
Shirley Jones
Marty Ingels
CompuServe
Stein
Lorenzo Lamas
Prodigy
Screen Star
Duncan Ferguson
University of Georgia
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