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...Plans to fuse TV, radio and online newsrooms and cut up to 490 jobs "should have been done earlier," says Byford. "We're a multimedia broadcaster increasingly organizing around a multimedia platform." But whether or not these cuts deliver the benefits he envisages, the spectacle of the BBC targeting core services and preserving frothier output fuels concerns that it has lost its reason for being. Richard North, author of the 2007 book Scrap the BBC!, calls the broadcaster a "grotesque monopoly" and advocates its privatization. "Broadcasting now needs no more control or support than the print media," he says...
Informality, disputation and disrespect for authority are core Danish traits. But there are limits, and Danes seem to know in their bones just how far they can push them. The result is an economy that looks like something out of an enlightened management textbook. There are a few clear goals and lots of leeway to achieve them. In one fascinating study, two American sociologists found that Danish line workers have nearly as much job autonomy as supervisors do in the U.S., while supervisors in Denmark have about as much autonomy as upper managers...
...course, the "core problem" is the U.S. property market, says Han de Jong, chief economist for ABN Amro in Amsterdam. "In hindsight, the housing market in the U.S. was a bubble." The cause? Superlow interest rates that encouraged lenders to offer loans to virtually anyone, even those with bad credit. Those loans were then bundled together into exotic derivatives and sold off to financial institutions worldwide; when borrowers began to default on their mortgages, money managers from São Paulo to Seoul suffered huge losses...
Current freshmen and sophomores will most likely graduate under the Core Curriculum, the professor in charge of implementing its replacement said at yesterday’s full Faculty meeting. Moving away from earlier plans that would have brought the Classes of 2010 and 2011 under the general education program, Jay M. Harris said the new curriculum would not go into effect until fall 2009. That means that the Class of 2013 would be the first to enter under the new requirements. Harris said the committee expects to have a small number of courses available to students in the fall...
...Roof” is closing this Saturday at the Loeb Ex. Admission is free and you can use the money you save on tickets to buy some cheap whiskey after the show. 8:30 pm. Saturday, Nov. 17. Loeb Ex. Free. 5) Does this count as a (Foreign) Cultures Core? There’s a wine-tasting class on Sunday at the Cambridge Queenshead Pub. Learn what all the sophisticates are talking about when they swirl their glasses and inhale. Learn from Michael Meagher of the restaurant L’Espalier, one of Boston’s finest. Sunday evening...