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Good luck. Software filters and online ratings systems have been around since before the CDA was born, and they've always been beset with problems. Recently, for instance, when Microsoft began backing a ratings standard known as RSACI and started including the filter as part of its browser, Internet Explorer, the company quickly found that the "solution" could keep large numbers of viewers away from its news site, MSNBC. Microsoft quietly removed the rating. The problem should have been foreseen. News, after all, frequently covers violent, adult-oriented subjects, which puts many news stories into the same verboten range...
...network. Account changes are rippling at a record pace through the U.S. advertising industry, which handled $52 billion in domestic media billings last year. (Billings measure clients' ad spending, on which agencies take a cut as fees; 15% used to be standard, although the rate varies.) The U.S. Army, beset by sex scandals and an increasingly hard time recruiting new soldiers, is putting its $80 million account--now held by Young & Rubicam--up for review. That couldn't be more fitting, because the ad wars are turning Madison Avenue into a shelled-out battleground where huge chunks of business...
...argues that a strong commitment to personal values can help avoid the type of disaster that beset the Nixon administration...
With the Crimson beset by a myriad of injuries, including top scorer Mike Ferrucci's shoulder, falling into a hole like that to a talented opponent spelled doom...
America's public schools, beset with racial ills, face a long and difficult road to improvement, panelists said last night at a discussion at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum...