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...residual payment of $1,200 a year for one-hour shows streamed online in the first two years of the new contract. In the third year of the deal, however, they will get something directors didn't, residuals equal to 2% of the revenue received by the program's distributor. The agreement also doubles the residual rate for movies and TV shows sold online and secures the union's jurisdiction over content created specifically for the Web above certain budgets...
...Monfreid meets, among others, an imprisoned spy (a "venomous reptile") whose escape he enables and later regrets; a Chinese trepang trader on a deserted island; a metrosexual polyglot butler; a Bedouin shouldering a Remington; a priest who manufactures hashish; and a hashish distributor who operates from an undertaker's office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
...shots from the floor and shooting 6-for-6 from the line to chip in 10 points. “Everybody was looking for the big guys inside,” Unger said. “We seemed to have success that way.” The major distributor was sophomore guard Jeremy Lin, who dished out nine assists on the day. Overall, Harvard outscored Dartmouth, 44-26, in the paint. “It helped us that we were able to throw it in there,” Amaker said. “And our guys, they finished this...
...arrived in Jordan, the first time a stand-up troupe had ever preformed in the kingdom, the comedians were surprised to discover that much of their audience already knew their jokes and had already seen the Axis of Evil DVD, even though Axis of Evil doesn't have a distributor in Jordan. "It's the Middle Eastern distribution system," said Ahmed Ahmed. "One person buys it, and everyone else copies...
Chris Pearce, owner, importer and distributor of World Sake Imports, says the growth of imports is no tsunami, but it is encouraging. "At the corporate level, they're staying away from sake because it's too much work," he says. "My basic rule with anything that has to do with sake is that it takes 2 1?2 times as much effort because the educational element is unknown." Pearce is very much a purist: "You can't go into sake with a wine background and understand it. You have to understand it on its own." But, he adds...