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...cable networks have hit their peak--and neither Hendricks nor McHale would be likely to stick around if Discovery did go public. They both relish the fact that since they don't have to answer to Wall Street, they can plow earnings back into long-term investments. "When you construct a 10-year deal with them, it's not a ridiculous discussion," says Rupert Gavin, CEO of BBC Worldwide, whose upstart cable channel, BBC America, is distributed by Discovery...
...members also discussed whether the First Amendment gave the sculptors the right to construct the snow phallus...
Fred O. Smith ’04 said he thought other people might have been upset when the sculpture was torn down because it took a great deal of work to construct...
...work based on what others have done. You know those sourcebook articles that spend 90% of their time regurgitating the arguments of others, concluding with a new way of looking at those arguments? Those articles are very valuable, and also 90% easier to write than the articles that construct their own everything from scratch, in addition to their own arguments and conclusions. The articles are also much easier to defend in oral exams—the unexpected evil cousin that follows Thesis Club. Many academic greats have gotten quite far on this model, so borrow and footnote away...
Call it a technical knockout. Regulations state that all films must be nominated by a recognized national committee made up of a group of impartial filmmakers. Palestine, lacking many of the trappings of a nation, also lacks any such committee. "We were going to construct a committee for the purpose of submitting the film, but we never got that far," says the film's director, Elia Suleiman. "At least now the academy might have to re-evaluate the logistics of how they reject or accept films...