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...were able to secure a good act this time around might only be a consequence of good luck and experienced leadership.Moreover, we hope that more money is allocated for the initial concert outlay. The current HCC had $30,000 to work with. While we understand that the UC is beholden to the needs of student groups—currently 67 percent is set aside for funding—if the council were to cut back on pursuing more medium-sized social events, like last year’s failed Havana on the Harbor and the Springfest After Party, it could...
...Harvard cannot match donations on a regular basis. In short, there is no clear or fair answer as to why Harvard matched contributions for the tsunami and Katrina but not the Kashmir earthquake. And it is true that with regards to charitable donations by the University, the administration is beholden to the emotions of the community—emotions that are largely drive by what we are fed by the media—but we fail to see a fairer system devisable. The University must balance competing interests and make these tough decisions, and so far the administration has looked...
...movie, caught DreamWorks off guard. Its $1 billion in seed money was perhaps a fifth of what was needed, says media investor Harold Vogel, author of Entertainment Industry Economics. But the backbreaker has been DVD sales, where many films now derive most of their profit. Moviemakers are so beholden to retailers like Wal-Mart and Best Buy that studio execs routinely confer with them before setting release dates. There are so many new releases that retailers afford each a much shorter shelf life. And with 80% of U.S. households owning DVD players, fewer people are rushing out to replace their...
...infringe upon the authority of Congress, they said, but upon that of the President. The Constitution forbids giving Executive powers to an official who, like the Comptroller, is removable by the legislature. In effect, the judges said, an officer who carries out Executive Branch functions must not be beholden to another branch...
Republican politicians and those in the media who do their bidding have, especially over the last decade, found a new tool for attacking working people. When politicians or activists come forward to defend working people against business interests, the Republicans accuse them of being beholden to “union bosses.” The hoped-for mental image is of a bunch of fat white guys in three-piece suits smoking cigars, an image that will make us immediately forget whatever policy we were talking about. Hell, we wouldn’t want “bosses?...