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...building its community of reviewers, Yelp is hoping for a MySpace-like allegiance to the site's content and personalities. There's also the $15 billion that companies spend annually on local Yellow Page ads nationally to motivate their efforts. "Most local businesses--whether veterinarians, massage parlors, spas or restaurants--aren't buying Google key-words," says Peter Fenton, a partner at Benchmark Capital, which this month sank $10 million into Yelp...
...part, the expansion of satellite and cable channels throughout the world has vastly increased the need for more content, any content. But inspired by the performance last year of hits such as Lost, 24, Desperate Housewives and, of course, CSI, foreign buyers are also ponying up higher prices for this fall's new shows, in some cases paying 50% to 75% more for an American drama than they did three years ago. "These new shows have raised the bar for programming around the world and increased the provenance of American TV," says 20th Century Fox Television president Gary Newman...
...biggest problem by far with having a faith-based component in general education is not so much the content but the way such a component would be perceived. The media has already repeatedly alluded to Harvard returning to its Puritan roots. Even if the College somehow manages to remove this stigma of association with English Protestantism, it still risks being pigeonholed as giving undue emphasis to the study of religion and being grouped with parochial schools...
...hinted that this is an example of the shortcomings of a report that “seems written too much in the shadow of 9/11.” What a blow! As a matter of fact, I have taught a version of this course since 1981; the focus and content have been revised over the years, as new materials and perspectives were incorporated. Narrow it is not: It deals with northeastern Europe as much as with the Near East, as anyone acquainted with the history of the Crusades might have guessed. And my contention is that developments that took place...
Several of Shleifer’s colleagues in the economics department declined to comment on whether the professor had been punished. But Claudia Goldin, the Lee professor of economics, wrote in an e-mail Thursday that Shleifer had appeared “quite content...