Koppel's Good Night

By Rebecca Winters

TED KOPPEL, who announced last week he would step down as anchor of ABC's Nightline after 25 years (and 42 with the network), isn't heading off to the links when his contract ends in December. The cerebral newsman says he is weighing offers to do the kind of long-form reporting he did in Iraq in 2003. He won't divulge the gigs, but says, "I'm not going to all of a sudden start doing fashion." Heidi Klum, rest easy.