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...fair, NBC has the least reason of any of the broadcast networks to offer anything new, given that it leads the ratings in most categories - a fact its executives hammered incessantly, to a receptive audience of ad buyers. At the upfronts, NBC has the home-field advantage. NBC shows, as a rule, are about people who have money (radio psychiatrists, doctors, lawyers), will have money (medical interns), come from money (the upper-middle-class suburban-kids-in-the-city of "Friends") or at least dress like they have money (the natty cops and DAs on "Law and Order"). Advertising executives...
...autistic people--even high-functioning autistic people--the ability to read the internal state of another person comes only after long struggle, and even then most of them fail to detect the subtle signals that normal individuals unconsciously broadcast. "I had no idea that other people communicated through subtle eye movements," says autistic engineer Temple Grandin, "until I read it in a magazine five years...
...COKIE ROBERTS She'll step down this fall as co-host of ABC's This Week. The 58-year-old broadcast veteran's kids are grown, but "I want a life," she said. Rumors that ABC execs were seeking new talent to lure a younger audience may have rankled as well...
Ward developed a temporary project with students titled “Canopy,” which consisted of two weeks of recorded readings of “Invisible Cities,” by Italo Calvino, broadcast through speakers hidden in the trees. According to Cathleen McCormick, director of programs at the OFA, the exhibition helped to create a sense of a commons for the Harvard and Cambridge communities...
...streets of Europe are filled with rallies that support the Palestinians and condemn Israel. Listening to a radio broadcast on BBC World last week, I was struck by an anchor's air of incomprehension at a demonstration in Washington in support of Israel: Weren't the Americans, she asked a correspondent, really rather "simple" when it came to the realities of the Middle East? Many American Jews, not surprisingly, are furious at the European response. For nations responsible for the Holocaust to ignore the horrors of suicide attacks on Israeli targets, to shut their ears to the hate for Jews...