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...owns DirecTV) for the same reason Rupert Murdoch wanted Hughes before EchoStar moved in. Most of the nation's cable lines are in the hands of rivals like AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer) and half-rivals like AT&T Broadband and Comcast who have plenty of content-distribution deals already inked - making reasonably priced access via cable into the U.S. couch-potato market hard to find. Making EchoStar-DirecTV and its control of 90 percent of the current satellite-TV market a perfect partner...
...lines doesn't seem so important. Right-out-of-the-box satellite is getting a fast start in the infrastructure-deprived Third World, and only half of European households are wired for cable - with most of the wiring on the Continent yet to be upgraded to carry the broadband content that movies-on-demand dreamers are waiting for. In the U.S., meanwhile, a full 90 percent of homes are wired for cable, and as for broadband capability - the U.S. has more of that than it can currently...
...themes were perplexing- the importance attached to dreams, the thanks and praise to Allah, whose name was repeated about as often as a teenager says "cool" in a typical conversation. In the Islamic world, by contrast, the central mystery of the tape had little to do with its content and more with the process by which it had been made public. Why had the Americans produced it now? And so the tape became the perfect example of a wider truth: technologies like television may have shrunk the world, but they have not given it a common understanding...
...Program content and offerings will remain the same, according to an agreement signed in November between the Radcliffe Institute and the Arnold Arboretum...
...disaster, is still making public calls for Americans to call their congressmen about more tax relief, Democrats clearly aren't feeling any intolerable heat from voters. And Daschle, whose position allows him to block legislation he hates but not to pass legislation he likes, looks like he's content to stall, stall, stall, until the air clears and people start watching Congress for issues again. And when they do, the Democrats will have the usual list of items to put up against Bush's tax cuts - and the usual complaints that those cuts are leading a nation into...