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Today Show co-anchor Matt Lauer will address the Class of 2009 on Class Day, the Senior Class Committee announced yesterday. Lauer joins a heterogeneous group of past speakers including Ben S. Bernanke ’75 last year, Bill Clinton in 2007, and Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the popular cartoon “Family Guy,” in 2006. The Class Day speaker typically delivers a more light-hearted address to the College’s graduating senior class than the Commencement Day speech, which is given to all University graduates the next day. Senior class First...
Class Day speakers in recent years have run the gamut from policymakers, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and former President Bill Clinton, to entertainers, such as Seth MacFarlane, the creator of hit television show "Family Guy," and comedians Al Franken '73 and Conan O'Brien...
...largest distributor of advertising in the world—own a business that aims to do nothing less than “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” It can be tremendously profitable to be a creator of content—even of costly content (think: Pixar...
Broadcast's new enemy is digital media, including venues like Hulu that were created by the networks themselves, which cut into their ad dollars. Last year Heroes creator Tim Kring gave a legendary rant about how viewers using TiVo or DVDs or downloading - legally or not - cut into the show's audience, leaving "the saps and dips____ who can't figure out how to watch it in a superior way" to watch live TV (which still counts most for ad dollars). In one sense he was right, if undiplomatic. But only half right, because technology also makes it possible...
Pope Benedict XVI's opposition to condoms, even as a weapon to help combat the spread of AIDS, should surprise no one who knows anything about Catholic Church teachings. The 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae, penned by Pope Paul VI, explicitly forbids contraception as denying the Creator's will that humans be fruitful and multiply. In the years since, despite scientific consensus that condoms greatly reduce the risk of contracting the HIV virus, nothing has budged at the Vatican. Any artificial contraception is a sin against God. Full stop...