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That's the same bind that NBC, and media companies at large, are in. People aren't going to enjoy watching a lame prime-time talk show for the satisfaction of knowing they're helping the parent company save on payroll. People who expect something else - lavish scripted dramas or typo-free news from costly foreign bureaus - will get alienated and leave, only deepening the revenue spiral that led to the cuts in the first place...
Paradox has long been a watchword of international climate change mitigation efforts. The United Nations Climate Change Conference, ending today in Copenhagen, has so far done more to bolster this notion than it has done to bind nations in new measures to combat our environmental crisis...
...says she is particularly interested in the double-bind faced by female politicians. “Either you are effeminate and you’re too weak to be a leader, or you project strength and confidence and you are not behaving the way people want you to behave as a woman,” she explains, though she says that she did not particularly feel this bind during her time as president of the Harvard Democrats...
...grow. More than 3 million people of Indian origin live in the U.S.; Indians comprise the biggest pool of foreign students in American universities, and wealthy Indian professionals are creating an increasingly effective India lobby in Washington. These, not the fluid world of geopolitics, are the ties that truly bind...
...economies leading the world out of recession while America languishes, the topic is coming up with increasing frequency. At a meeting of regional leaders hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand last month, Japan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama proposed an "East Asian community" that would bind together Japan, China, South Korea and the 10 countries of Southeast Asia, plus India, Australia and New Zealand. Hatoyama - who recently opined that "the era of U.S.-led globalism is coming to an end" - suggested this zone have its own common currency and could some day "lead the world." Less...