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...scandals go, a D-list Bollywood actor caught propositioning an unknown undercover reporter from an equally unknown TV channel isn't exactly Monica Lewinsky. Nevertheless, India was agog last week when upstart channel India TV broke what quickly became known as the "casting-couch scandal." In a Bombay hotel room rigged with hidden cameras, has-been screen villain Shakti Kapoor told what he thought was an aspiring young actress: "I want to make love to you. And if you want to come in this line [of business], you have to do what I am telling [you] to do." Kapoor then...
...endured, compared to the hellish pain of her wounds and being almost bombed by U.S. jets strafing nearby targets. Being 36 at the time, with a toughened hide, helped. "I'd dealt with a number of people who'd died in helicopter wrecks before," she says, sitting on a couch in her office, which is decorated with certificates from marathons she has run and photographs of her previous military units. Still, her capture left her with a sharpened sense of what might torment the young soldiers - many barely out of high school - lying in Landstuhl's wards...
...Game.” Two exceptionally common words which take on an exceptionally distinctive meaning when paired together. Their mere utterance unearths treasured images from the memory of any real Harvard student—like that time you blacked out at 1:30 p.m. on top of a couch that was on top of a U-Haul, for example. Or, that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and pretended to urinate on the Yale insignia. Or that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and actually did urinate on the Yale insignia. And, of course...
...this paradigm shift lie the seeds of revolutionary change. The Internet is a two-way medium. Although it is delivered on a glowing screen, it isn't at all like television. It's not one-to-many, like traditional media, but many- to-many. It doesn't work in couch-potato mode. And as Canter and Siegel discovered, it doesn't take kindly to in-your-face advertising...
...store is still a bit rough around the edges. A circular saw lies on the floor in front of the sound system in the back, and speakers are stacked haphazardly to the left in front of a torn leather couch. A bench seat from an old employee’s Dodge Caravan sits against the center display, enticing the tired shopper. The entire ceiling is plastered not with insulation, but old records...