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...StarTomorrow" will cost about 20 percent of what it would cost to produce for the network; advertisers will also pay less for spots, making it (at least initially easier) to attract their interest (and dollars). More importantly, "StarTomorrow" takes NBC further into the realm of digital entertainment. ?We?re a content company and there?s an awful lot of content moving towards the web. We need to experiment and find new things,? says Gaspin. Even, as with this particular "Idol" imitation, they're just experimenting with a new version of an old thing...
Taught by newly appointed 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, this course should attract both native New Englanders and naïve newcomers. The course will expose the myths and falsehoods of New England while exploring 19th-century inventions in light of current research on the region’s history. The course will give locals the chance to bond with their home turf, and New England outsiders the opportunity to immerse themselves in the history of the region—including Harvard’s history—through a novel multimedia experience...
...governing coalition last month to protest former Prime Minister Tsakhia Elbegdorj's economic policies, prompting Elbegdorj to resign and hundreds of supporters on both sides to rally outside parliament in freezing weather. Enkhbold, the former mayor of the capital, Ulan Bator, has promised to fight government corruption and attract investors to the mineral-rich country...
...friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never will be a Red Tory--but his stolid textbook campaign managed to attract a diverse group of voters, from rural Albertans to southern Ontarians to nationalist Quebeckers...
...intensely private man who once hated even the thought of public life and who still lends himself to easy caricature. He allowed photographers to follow him as he walked his two children--Benjamin, 9, and Rachel, 7--to school near the opposition leader's house at Stornoway, only to attract titters from Canadian sophisticates at the pictures of him politely shaking his son's hand. Conservatives maintain the public will warm to Harper. "He's going to bring a different tone at the top, a tone of respect and a different kind of zeal and energy about the country," says...