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...Current TV would never have got even this far had Murdoch not given it NWI's existing slot on his DirecTV satellite system, which accounts for 14.5 million of the nearly 20 million households Current reaches. It's a big start toward the 50 million Gore hopes to attain in five years. "Rupert Murdoch right now is the biggest contributor to the possible success of Current," says John Higgins, business editor of Broadcasting and Cable magazine...
...question is whether this cry can attain the pathos at which it aims, particularly given what it says about the one who cries it. The novel’s characters are not real characters but a mad archivist’s pastiche; and while this is the book’s greatest weakness, it is also a crucial part of its philosophical ambitions...
...states that the order does not require businesses "to utilize any numerical quota, goal or ratio, or otherwise to discriminate against or grant any preference to any individual or group on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It adds that "a failure to adopt or attain any statistical measures" would not, by itself, be wrong...
Perhaps the strongest case for Western Europe's opposition to the U.S. retaliation is the military one. European officers, indeed even some senior NATO figures, argue that the U.S. strike was not strong enough to attain its military objectives. It neither destroyed nor destabilized the Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Mosi, a French strategic expert...
...With a professor who has already gone through several years of probation and levels of review [to attain tenure], there aren’t as many sanctions available to their peer organization. There is likely to be less a tendency to go for extremely strong sanctions,” Flowers says...