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...players in Cincinnati because we all feel that something has to be done. At Cincy, they were selling t-shirts with "Doubles Yes" on the front and "ATP No" on the back. Several coaches, players and agents were also in the room-including famed agent Pat Jensen and Tennis Channel founder and tournament director Steve Bellamy. I won't go into the discussions at this time but look for an important announcement at 10am on Friday at the U.S. Open media room...
...Kong--based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing arm, HarperCollins, dropped a book written by Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British Governor, in which Patten was critical of Beijing. In 1999 Murdoch even...
Normandy. Tunisia. Stalingrad. Palls of oily black smoke towering over ruined cities. Automatic weapons chattering and soldiers shouting in shattering 5.1-channel audio. Battlefields it would take years to find Private Ryan in. When it arrives this fall, Call of Duty 2 (for PC and Xbox 360) will be the new state of the art in simulated WW II combat. Whatever campaign you choose--American, British, Russian or all of the above--it will be so intense, you'll almost wish you'd drawn a desk job Stateside. Almost...
CNBC has a long way to go to recapture the success of its bull-market heyday. Ad revenues last year were just $140 million, vs. $383 million in 2001, reports Kagan Research. Overall ratings remain depressed, even though onetime rival CNNfn went dark last year. And a new financial channel is expected at Fox next spring, so there is a sense of urgency in the place. CNBC, a division of GE's NBC Universal, has tried everything to reinvent itself, including going Hollywood. That failed experiment led to the cancellation of prime-time shows with hosts Dennis Miller, John McEnroe...
...Four hours later, after swimming almost 5 km, the men reached Plum Pudding Island, since renamed Kennedy Island. Though well sheltered by trees, the atoll provided little food; a couple of days later, the ragged sailors swam another 2 km to the larger Olasana Island. Swimming out into the channel, Kennedy tried to flag down a passing PT boat. It failed to see him - but good fortune...