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...Viacom's aim, CEO Philippe Dauman said at an investor conference, was to "show our content in an environment we control." But online audiences gravitate toward neutral platforms that old-line media companies don't control, from Google's search box to Apple's iTunes Music Store--and to YouTube, which already gets more traffic than all the TV-network websites combined, according to research firm Hitwise. "Eventually all of the copyrighted content will be available on virtually all of the sites," Google CEO Eric Schmidt said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. "The growth of YouTube, the growth...
...chapters. The pages are peppered with dozens of photographs of the region and its people, and with playful cartoons drawn by Reynaud's close friend, José Reis de Matos. The visuals complement the chatty, engaging voice of the author as he introduces some of his accomplices: Aimé, the "prince of the art of cutting up the carcass"; Bibi, the bistro owner with a "paunch as welcoming as a soft pillow to a tired head at night"; and Pompon, the Armagnac supplier who doubles as a "learned professor...
...BIRTH OF THE BEEF: Fifteen years after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
...Hamas is trying to soften its image, its erstwhile adversaries in Fatah are endorsing the effort: "We call on all parties, including the Arabs, to work and live with this government and to give it an opportunity," said Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rudeineh. The aim seems to be to break up the united front of the Quartet, persuading the Europeans and the U.N. to begin working with the government - probably through non-Hamas ministers - while the Saudis and Egyptians, mindful of the need to prevent Iran from becoming the main patron of the Palestinian cause, would offer financial and diplomatic...
...desire, what we need, and the personal necessities of which we cannot yet conceive. It is my belief that the inaugural Women’s Week was meant to capture some of this imaginative, open spirit. Both the Harvard College Women’s Center and the Seneca, Inc. aim to improve the experience of undergraduate women at Harvard; as such, the week of events was largely intended to illuminate the issues and challenges faced by women, to engage people in controversial debates, and further, to connect men and women from all parts of campus. If, by participating in such...