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...undergraduates to understand.Lisette N. Enumah ’08 agreed.“I didn’t know all that was going on,” she said. “But I was inspired to know more.”The forum concluded with organizing a call-in to Congress for the global fund to fight AIDS. Gizella S. Nagy, program director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, said she hoped students learned that they could join the fight against HIV now.“The message for today is that...
...Packers and Cowboys, linked by history and excellence and separated by style and region, seem to play each other constantly, not just on the field, where the Cowboys - having won the last eight contests - maintain a 13-10 edge, but also in sports bars and on call-in shows and even on august editorial pages. The question of which organization is really America's Team was taken up by Paul Gigot in the Wall Street Journal in response to a piece written by Fred Barnes in the Weekly Standard. Barnes had maintained that the Cowboys' status as the national team...
...Chvez has publicly, in Spanish, called Bush an a______who is trying to assassinate him. He has referred to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as an "illiterate" who has a crush on him. Chvez often airs his attacks on Al Presidente, a weekly, hours-long television call-in show from the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas. His fulminations are such a hit with Venezuelan supporters that Chvez has broadened his audience. During a recent live broadcast, he exhorted people across the region to join his anti-U.S. campaign. "Latin America," he said, "is done kneeling...
Some people, especially young people nurtured on color TV, like the idea. In a poll by Ted Turner's Cable News Network the day the colorized Yankee Doodle Dandy premiered on Turner's SuperStation WTBS last month, 61% of call-in respondents preferred to see old films in color. Good thing: the Turner Broadcasting System has ordered the coloring of 100 black-and-whites from the MGM and Warner Bros libraries. "We're not trying to make bad films great," says Jack Petrik, executive vice president of WTBS. "We're trying to make great films better." Charles Powell, executive vice...
Some critics object to the content of the messages, especially the dial-a-porn calls, but others protest that advertisements for the call-in services do not make it clear enough that there is a special charge for the calls. The California Utilities Commission agrees. It has ordered a one-time rebate to consumers who phone the numbers without realizing there is an extra charge. INVESTIGATIONS Closing Down Sneak Previews...