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...Apple partnership gives Disney an elegant solution to a dilemma facing every entertainment company in the digital age: Will the content companies (movie studios and TV producers) rule the day, or will the distribution channels (cable companies and devicemakers) prove more powerful? The deal with Apple gives Disney a strong presence on both sides. But Iger hopes to go much further--he wants Disney and Pixar characters and programs on the screens of every type of electronic gadget imaginable. "More and more people are using this technology to do all sorts of things," he says. "We need...
...Having chosen to bring the baby to term, Alison now has to figure out whether she brings Ben into the equation. In such a dilemma, whom can she confide in? You might expect that such a personable sort would have a circle of women friends - what Apatow would call her pussy posse - but not Alison. All right, no girlfriends. But she's got an infotainment job in L.A.; the place must be swarming with gay men, ready to offer their sympathy or tart wisdom. In show business, isn't there a Will for every Grace? No again; Alison is effectively...
Thankfully, current plans within Social Studies are aimed at addressing this dilemma. Tuck said, “The long term aim is reworking the concentration so that we are clear as to why Social Studies is a separate concentration within the social sciences.” Then, hopefully, the communication between Social Studies and freshmen will simply focus on the necessary interests of a potential concentrator—such as a desire to learn social theory and apply that to a to-be-discovered focus area—and not how the concentration is especially difficult or special...
...preconceptions about the use of violence for political purposes. To what extent, Schroeder asks, do individuals practice terrorism and countries practice military diplomacy, when both actions end in the deaths of dozens, or millions, of innocents? The filmmaker has no easy answers; no answers at all; and that moral dilemma hangs over the viewer of Terror's Advocate long after the specific horrors of A Mighty Heart will have receded into the mists of docudrama...
...discover this bleakness in his stories: "I had no idea that there was so much despair in them. I'd never consciously thought about what I was writing until the collection was put together. I'm not a despairing person. I always want to begin with some sort of dilemma, or problem, and for the characters to come to some sort of resolution, or some sort of understanding." Indeed, there are glimmers of hope and redemption in his snapshots of lives lived "elsewhere." While there is sadness and uncertainty, there is also a good deal of dignity, courage and kindness...