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...doesn't love the new movie deal? Well, some studio chiefs, who are worried that a movie on disc is much easier to dupe, and piracy is a huge drain on their income. But mainly theater owners. When they hear the word digital, they reach for their digitalis. Already feeling the hit from the 13% slump in moviegoing over the past three years, they aren't eager to spend the more than $3 billion or so that it would cost to convert approximately 36,000 film projectors to digital...
...sales and property taxes just like American citizens. In addition to paying federal taxes, most undocumented immigrants also contribute billions of dollars to Social Security—a benefit they often cannot later claim due to their lack of appropriate documentation. In short, while immigrants are a fiscal drain in states with large undocumented immigrant populations, they are also net contributors to the federal treasury. Many believe that this “wall” will halt the flow of undocumented Mexicans into the US—but they are wrong. A fence already exists along much of the border...
Watching Lawrence Summers, who took over the year after I graduated, helped drain a good deal of my cynicism toward Harvard. The late 1990s was a period of great wealth-making in America, and it was clear to me as both a reporter and a student that the president’s chief duty was to net as much money for the University as possible, rather than tend to the deficiencies in Harvard’s classrooms. Summers, in contrast, was an “ideas” president, who took Harvard’s mission as a place...
...Professor Lino Pertile joined late lunchers in the Kirkland dining hall. The dining hall opened for dinner as usual last night. The plumbers used a “snake” or “plumber’s friend,” a metal cable inserted down the drain and pulled to dislodge blockages Mills said. Mills added that cleaners were also brought in to ‘sanitize surfaces’ before dinner, which allowed for Eliot students to return to their own dining hall last night to eat. Mills also confirmed that there was no flood damage...
...diseases that could be prevented with a bit more funding, $1.9 billion is a lot of money for a virus that has so far killed fewer than 100 people. A real risk exists that a single-minded battle against a pandemic that may or may not occur soon could drain needed health resources from clear and present dangers...