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...director general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and factual programming, and to sell the Corporation's iconic West London headquarters, Television Centre. Management is now locked in talks with unions, which have threatened industrial action if an agreement on the layoffs is not reached by Nov. 5. "The BBC's problems are manifold," says Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and now a journalism professor at London's City University. "There are more dramas at the BBC than ever get shown on screen...
...exclusive third-party advertising platform partner for Facebook,” according to a statement. The company will now sell the banner ads appearing on Facebook outside of the United States and will share the revenue generated by that advertising. Last year, Microsoft contracted an agreement to run banner ads on Facebook in the United States through 2011. “Microsoft has a lot of cash. Facebook has enormous growth prospects. It’s a smart investment deal from both sides,” said John G. Palfrey Jr. ’94, the executive director of Harvard...
Harvard: Congratulations are in order. As announced in September 18th’s Crimson (and The New York Times that same day), the University has voluntarily agreed to cap carbon emissions for the extensive science facilities it is planning for Allston. Struck between the University and the state, the agreement sets legally enforceable emissions limits on the real estate development to a level 50 percent below the national standard...
...This agreement is the first of its kind in the U.S. and the first quantifiable emissions commitment the school has made to date. Coverage, while deservedly laudatory, should have included the fact that students have been there, pushing the administration, every step...
...tour of Africa last week, Singh phoned President George W. Bush to apologize for "certain difficulties" that left the agreement in what a Times of India editorial dubbed a "deep freezer." Singh has been dogged by his coalition partners in the Left Front, spearheaded by the Communists, who reject the deal as giving too much leverage to the U.S. The alliance between Singh's centrist Congress Party and the Left Front has always been fragile, bridging differences on issues ranging from India's geopolitical alignment to the licensing of supermarket chains. And to the leftists, the idea of signing...