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...fall season's new shows, network executives will be standing on stages and making promises about demographics, households, and various other code words for the ability to connect businesses with your wallet. We will hear slightly desperate rhetoric about the reach and continuing relevance of network TV. For a brief, blissful week - at least in the words of the marketing executives - it will be 1973 again, when the broadcast networks delivered vast hordes of obedient consumers to advertisers, and cable was just something you found coiled up on the deck of a boat...
...award-winning first novel, Becoming Strangers (published last year), in which two main characters dealt with terminal disease, Dean was plowing through the British news of 1981 - a touchstone year of royal romance, race riots and Thatcherism in full cry - when she was sidetracked by a brief item on the death of Bobby Sands. Using lack of knowledge as her passport, Dean spent the next nine months flitting between Provence and Belfast to record the memories of republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British soldiers, prison officers and the Catholic and Protestant residents of Belfast's working-class housing estates. The hundreds...
...green laser pointer may be great for punctuating presentations, but mind the eyes. A Mayo Clinic study found that retinas can be harmed by exposures as brief as 60 seconds...
Concurring with the mayor, Friedman argues in his new book “The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century” that Japanese outsourcing to China will likely foster conciliation between the two countries. At least in the short term, this appears an unfortunate prognostication...
...agree. We are starkly disappointed that Harvard has to be passive aggressive when it comes to this case; the University should have been proactive from the beginning. However, given the current situation and the appeal to the Supreme Court, we encourage the University to file an amicus brief with the court. Fifty members of the Harvard Law School faculty filed such a brief in the appeals court, and its effectiveness substantiates similar action with the Supreme Court...