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...giant leap backward for pop stars in space last week when the Russian space agency denied 'N Sync member LANCE BASS a place on its October mission. The agency raised the velvet rope after a consortium of Bass backers failed to cough up the $20 million cover charge required for entry onto the Soyuz space capsule. Bass had been training in Moscow and Houston, completing maneuvers in zero gravity and learning Russian, but his backers, including a production company hoping to film a documentary of the trip, missed several payment deadlines. Bass's seat will not go empty...
...only investigations in which the FLA has made any improvements are those done on the coattails of the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC)—initiated by the WRC and first publicized by the WRC,” says Matthew L. Teaman, a USAS representative and Ohio State University student who serves on the WRC governing board...
...cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer transfer-seeking players toward his son Jason's soccer agency seems a relatively mild strain of nepotism for the modern game. And news that Ferguson tried to cobble together a consortium to buy the club to stave off a bid by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB will likely cement him more strongly still in the hearts of the estimated 50 million Manchester United fans worldwide who are this book's natural readership. For the rest of us, a 600-page biography, complete...
...first prize, awarded to The Stone Cutters was $500 cash and a scheduled appearance at Virgin Records on Newbury Street. Second prize, going to Corporate Whore, was a Virgin Records gift voucher. The competition was put on by the Consortium For Global Leadership, a group that brings in speakers and organizes events to “get the three schools to mingle,” says Geraldine Chin, the host of the show from the Law School. The five judges included representatives from the House of Blues, the Boston Phoenix, Virgin Records and a student from the Medical School. Bands...
...encompassed in today’s diversity rallies to give women access to a Harvard education. Radcliffe was a central force in getting classes to go co-ed at Harvard in 1943, opening up the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to women in 1963 and organizing the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies in 1992 that brings together faculty and graduate students from six Boston-area universities...