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...military threat to justify going to war. It's partly corporate--the BBC, through its commercial side, is turning into a powerful media conglomerate. Some critics say the BBC is dumbing down its entertainment shows to get ratings and sexing up some of its news broadcasts to get buzz. With new digital-TV and radio channels, a highly successful website, a major international expansion--to say nothing of the fight with the government that provides much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says...
...Recent buzz band The Stills serve up a compelling but unremarkable slice of modern rock on their debut full-length, following recent albums from bands (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Interpol) paying obvious homage to the 80s post-punk...
...Philippines Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is Bush's staunch ally in the War on Terror. Her presidency is also threatened by a restive Philippine military. We've seen this play before: during a coup attempt against former President Corazon Aquino in 1989, the first President Bush ordered U.S. warplanes to buzz the skies over Manila in order to show that the U.S. was against the mutineers...
...Archbishop showed up at the Monza racetrack for a spin in a Formula One car before the Grand Prix. But Tettamanzi could see his prospects fade. Some feel the Cardinals will again look outside Italy, perhaps to Africa or Latin America, where an unabashed Catholicism is booming. And early buzz could wind up backfiring. "You can't seem to want it too bad," says a veteran Vatican official. Or, in the words of an old Vatican dictum, "He who enters the conclave as Pope exits as Cardinal...
...little of everything and everything about something.” Whether or not Harvard’s Core Curriculum currently achieves that goal is somewhat dubious, and the curricular review process should, with any luck, improve things a great deal. One area, however, that there has been little buzz about—and thus seems in danger of being overlooked—is Harvard’s obligation to ensure that all its graduating seniors have a mastery of at least one foreign language. Then again, plus ça change...