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...there room for mid-sized UC-sponsored social events? The Afterparty and the UC’s recent attempt at a booze cruise—“Havana on the Harbor”—lost a combined $18,000 of students’ money. In contrast, the UC’s most successful endeavors have been with either huge concerts featuring Bob Dylan and Busta Rhyme or small-scale events like Friday Movie Nights. These are the UC’s unique events—events that no other organization has the wherewithal to put together. Anything...
...opposed to works which drop a private vision into an environment which is alien, or upsetting or hostile to the expectations of the people who live in a place. … This works by shock and contrast rather than by harmony,” Babb says...
...feature a former Marine who runs one of its 21 U.S. operations. Dressed in a big black cowboy hat, he is standing in front of a patriotically painted helicopter, with the tagline "I am EADS." The company has also figured out how to play American-style politics: in contrast to Boeing, whose most vociferous political proponents are Democrats in Washington State eager to protect the company's Seattle-area jobs, EADS is building a base in the Republican-dominated South. Two weeks ago, it opened another plant in Alabama, a Republican state, and has hired a former top aide...
...recently wrote down the value of its Infinity radio business by $10.9 billion, but terrestrial radio still hauls in around $20 billion a year in revenues, mainly from local advertisers like car dealers and banks, rendering it an important marketing tool and generator of free cash flow. Sirius, in contrast, forecasts revenues of just $210 million this year and an operating loss of $480 million. Moreover, the company is continually playing catch-up to XM, which has leapfrogged Sirius with its technology and consumer electronics and boasts its own compelling programming, including dozens of ad-free music channels, Major League...
...contrast, Yale Law School won an injunction earlier this year from a U.S. District Court judge in Bridgeport explicitly allowing it to keep military recruiters off campus...