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...years later, when Disney was involved in a controversial effort to build a history theme park near the Civil War battlefields of northern Virginia, the company wanted the state to pitch in $132 million for the necessary road improvements--a demand that was contributing to what was steadily becoming a genuine public relations calamity. By that time, Eisner was making $202 million a year, so I suggested publicly that he pay for the roads himself. That would still leave him an annual take of $70 million. We knew he could live on that, because...
...apology. In a Korean-language broadcast to the world, the North expressed its "deep regret" for the submarine incident, promised to keep such things from happening again and sweetly offered to "work with others for durable peace and stability on the Korean peninsula." The North Koreans also dropped their demand for the sub in return for the remains of their dead. A day later the North agreed to sit down with the U.S. and South Korea to talk about starting four-power (North, South, U.S. and China) negotiations on a formal peace settlement of the Korean War 43 years after...
Rather, writers like Burns and Ware are prime examples of the major weakness of graphic novels: they are emotionally difficult and even hateful to readers. They demand you to be engaged, they demand you to look and absorb every sweat-inducing detail, and worst of all, they mock happy endings...
...increasingly accepting society to serve in what is becoming an increasingly dysfunctional institution. Nicole Boehler Tübingen, Germany The Refinery Crunch Matthew Yeomans' essay "refining the Problem" [Sept. 26] argued that building more refineries may alleviate the oil shortage. But we also need to tackle problems on the demand side. Developing countries such as India and China require vast quantities of oil, but they don't have a lot of energy-saving technology and aren't taking concrete steps to promote energy conservation. Our sources of crude oil are not everlasting. Governments must do their best to educate their...
This essential demand is the source of the hardest questions surrounding student proposals for a women’s center. How much space should a women’s center get? Where should it go? How should it be configured...