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...Charles, this was too much for the heavyweights to overcome. “Coming through [Weld Boathouse], there’s the long turn,” Demers added. “If you don’t have anything to push you, you can get a little too content with your stroke and lose a little energy. That being said, there was no visible weakening on our end—we rowed our best.” The Radcliffe lightweights also posted solid times on the river. Racing two boats in the lightweight eight regatta yesterday, the Black...
...Screens may not dim, but first TV and then the movies will look different if the two parties can't come closer together. The deal-breaker in the negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP is new media content. Those pithy webisodes of The Office and Battlestar Galactica? Someone wrote them, and wants to get paid when you play them on your iPod. In order to avoid a strike, said WGA West President Patric M. Verrone in a statement, "What we must have is a contract that gives us the ability to keep up with the financial success of this ever...
...British Invasion: The major U.S. networks may look more like BBC America as content from abroad fills the void. The U.K. version of The Office, with Ricky Gervais, is an obvious substitute for Steve Carell's NBC version. And Footballers' Wives would do for ABC's Desperate Housewives in a pinch...
...meditative mysticism in a Jewish context. The avid curiosity it provoked helped launch a thousand Kabbalah classes. Kamenetz's follow-up, Stalking Elijah: Adventures with Today's Jewish Mystical Masters, won the National Jewish Book Award. But his latest offering, The History of Last Night's Dream, diverges in content and tone. TIME's David Van Biema wondered whether he was straying from his fan base...
...contributors, all of whom have taken non-partisan oaths, summarize the candidates’ political platforms. The Web site also posts news and opinion pieces from a variety of outside sources, after VoteGopher’s editors have screened the articles. One of the Web site’s content editors, Elizabeth L. Altmaier ’10, said that when opinion pieces lean toward one side, the author’s reasoning should be “fair and thoroughly explained.” This policy comes from VoteGopher’s mission...