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...market share rose from 12.5% to 13.1%. "EMI is one of the leaders" of the digital era, says Mike McGuire, research director at Gartner. "They're innovative." Yes, EMI benefited from big-selling albums by artists like the freestyle cartoon band Gorillaz and Coldplay (who nabbed the best album award for X&Y and best single for Speed of Sound at the Brit Awards in London last week). But the digital tide has hit - not only in the form of Apple Computer's iPod, but also through mobile-phone features, including ringtones, ringtunes (the actual songs) and ringbacks. Everyone from...
...KEVIN FERGUSON CRIMSON STAFF WRITER This week, Academy-Award winner Halle Berry was crowned Woman of the Year by Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As an actress, Berry’s achievements have been particularly notable. She won an Emmy for her stellar work as the titular heroine in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge” in 2000. She was the first African-American to receive the Best Actress Oscar for her phenomenally tortured performance as Leticia Musgrove in “Monster’s Ball” in 2002. And, most importantly, Oprah...
...lack of Middle East experts on its faculty.Oren’s 2002 book, “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East,” was a New York Times best-seller and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History.—Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached at smincer@fas.harvard.edu...
Roasting the 2006 Woman of the Year Halle Berry proved to be quite a mouthful for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, as its members got up close, personal, and more with the Academy Award-winning actress.The afternoon began innocently enough with the Woman of the Year parade, which headed for the Agassiz Theatre this year because of ongoing renovations at the Pudding’s 12 Holyoke St. home.The parade along Mass. Ave was not Berry’s usual red carpet crowd—her entourage included cows, llamas, Miss Massachusetts, the Harvard University Band, and the cast...
Former and current Harvard students make up 14 of the 30 recipients of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships For New Americans, which award funding for two years of graduate study in the United States to immigrants or children of immigrants.The 2006 fellows come from countries as diverse as Peru, Taiwan, Greece, Cuba, and Russia, and study a wide spectrum of topics ranging from bioengineering to government to English.These fellows are members of a group known as “New Americans,” a demographic that Warren Ilchman, director of the Soros Fellowships, characterizes as representing...