Word: channelling
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...dignity of television news was dealt a terrible blow this past Sunday when one of its most sterling outlets, the Fox News Channel, was forced to air some of the most unkind, hurtful, and––dare I say it––agitated commentary ever to see airtime. Ordinarily calm, even-handed, and intellectually honest, Fox was thrust unwittingly into the unfamiliar realm of the angry political diatribe when a guest lost his calm and flaunted his nasty, baseless feelings before the entire nation. Who was this guest who so compromised Fox?...
Krawczyck is also working to provide lecture videos to public television stations in nearby Asheville and Chapel Hill after hearing that a Cambridge public access channel plans to broadcast select lectures this fall...
...Film,” for example, drew upwards of 700 students to its first meeting (and ended up having to cut 500). Many Core courses are so big that they render any meaningful discussion during lecture essentially impossible. Thankfully, a back channel exists. During shopping period, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles managed to speed up the process, pushing through Humanities 10, 12, and 16 as Literature and Arts A substitutes, even though the Core Standing Committee and its subcommittees were not in session. This move demonstrates...
...much does a fatwa cost? The question should be spiritual, but last week an Indian TV channel aired footage of several Indian Muslim clerics allegedly taking bribes from undercover reporters for issuing the edicts. Among the fatwas bought (for as little as $22) were decrees saying Muslims may not use credit cards or double beds. One cleric issued a fatwa in support of watching TV; another wrote one against...
...India's "cash-for-fatwas" scandal broke out last weekend when a TV channel broadcast a sting operation that showed several Indian Muslim clerics allegedly taking, or demanding, bribes in return for issuing fatwas, or religious edicts. The bribes, some of which were as low as $60, were offered by undercover reporters wearing hidden cameras over a period of six weeks. In return for the cash, the clerics appear to hand out fatwas written in Urdu, the language used by many Muslims in Pakistan and India, on subjects requested by the reporters. Among the decrees issued by the fatwas: that...