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...SPORTS AUTHORITIES Can We Play Too? Who was conspicuously absent at preparations for last weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix? The fledgling Phoenix racing team, which was barred from participating by FIA, Formula One's ruling body. FIA told Phoenix, which came into being after purchasing certain assets from the now-defunct Prost team for a reported $3.5 million, that its entry was invalid because the group had not bought the "right to compete." The cost for Phoenix to qualify in time for the next Formula One season? $48 million. No such participatory problems for Mike Tyson. In spite...
...Absent from the album’s mix is renowned überproducer Glen Ballard, who co-authored much of Dave Matthews last album, as well as most of the material on Morisette’s previous two albums. This time Morisette is fully dressed and alive in psychedelic technicolor, for the first time singing songs written solely by her. There’s more irony in many of these songs than there ever was in 1996’s hit “Ironic...
...Crimson will also be bolstered by the return to the lineup of sohomores Kenny Turano and Dennis Packard, who were both absent from Saturday’s win over Brown. Freshman Noah Welch and sophomore Tim Pettit, who have had a week to recuperate as well, should be closer to 100 percent than last weekend, when they both played slightly injured...
...committee tentatively scheduled its next meeting for March 26. Healy and his senior staff, nine city councillors—including Mayor Michael A. Sullivan, who was absent from yesterday’s meeting—should be present...
...Those assets are absent for good reasons, particularly when it comes to the mainland. Broadcasting resources in China are owned, tightly controlled and censored by the government. There simply aren't many ways for overseas broadcasters to get signals to the public. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. beams some programming into the country through its STAR satellite business and its joint venture with Phoenix TV, a 24-hour news channel based in Hong Kong. Meanwhile, AOL Time Warner (TIME's parent company) has invested in CETV, another Chinese news and entertainment channel. But, it is technically illegal for most Chinese...