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...zipper-the visual signature of the anxious too-much-information era-was first introduced by Fox on the morning of 9/11. First by moments, but in TV news, moments are everything. As with so many things, Fox was slightly quicker than its rivals to detect, and direct, the next crank of the dial in our cultural volume level...
...testament to Frears’ skills as a director that the narrative can be quiet at times, without losing the viewer’s interest. Frears’ most direct preparations for this film are his “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Dangerous Liaisons...
...small number of spots in the class, subject to a few minimal academic criteria. After all, as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 is fond of repeating, every student at Harvard can do the work. The benefits of the direct approach are twofold. First of all, it should make more money. Hopefully quite a lot more, since the commodity in question has high social cachet, and the bidders, many of whom have more money than they know what to do with, will be in direct competition with each other, and able to increase...
However, the relationship between binge-drinking and wages is not necessarily direct.“It doesn’t make sense to think about it as a causal relationship,” warned Chatterji. “The data suggests that there are unobserved factors associated with drinking and wages that are hard to measure...
...Previous North Korean saber-rattling has been directed at squeezing more concessions out of the U.S. and its allies around the six-party negotiating table. The six-party process, which also involves South Korea, China and Russia, remains stalled amid sharply differing interpretations between the U.S. and North Korea over what had previously been agreed. North Korea has repeatedly pushed for direct talks with the U.S. - an idea supported by South Korea, China and Russia - but Washington has insisted, much as it has in its nuclear standoff with Iran, that it will only do business with Pyongyang on the basis...