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...balance and impartiality - for what he calls "a completeness of view." He concedes, though, that the BBC's swarms at news events can seem "incoherent and duplicative." Plans unveiled on Oct. 18 to fuse TV, radio and online newsrooms and lose up to 490 jobs "should have been done earlier," says Byford. "We're a multimedia broadcaster increasingly organizing around a multimedia platform...
...fellow Nobelist and West Indian writer whose first volume of poems was published in 1948. Naipaul came across it in 1955, while working part-time on a BBC radio program called Caribbean Voices. Although Naipaul says he broadcast everything Walcott submitted to the show, he also claims to have done so believing that "the first flush" of Walcott's inspiration had gone, and that the poet "was now marking time." Walcott's borrowing of Western European literary forms is peevishly dismissed as "falsifying" and his later career pooh-poohed with a donnish sneer: "A wonderful new black voice...
...many U.N. speeches, fact-finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed but very little is done. Here's hoping Burma does not become another one. Peter Cole, Condé Ste. Libiaire, France...
...easy to undervalue the magnitude of what Rowling has done. Knowingly or not, her seven words may have jumpstarted a quiet cultural revolution...
...student environmentalists have found supporters and allies at many levels of the University administration, and Harvard has done an admirable job of institutionalizing first steps towards campus sustainability. The Harvard Green Campus Initiative and Green Campus Loan Fund serve as apt examples. But these important offices depend on our actions as students. Summers would not have signed the Sustainability Principles without pressure from undergraduates; Former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 would not have pledged money to the Green Crimson Fund but for student expectations; the Energy Task Force would not have convened without...