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...Wellesley Dyke Ball: All’s Wellesley That Eats Wellesley
...Britain, the success of BBCA and the BBC's other commercial ventures is viewed with a wary eye. As its annual report coyly points out, "The BBC does not have shareholders and does not aim to make a profit." But since 2000, under director general Greg Dyke, another side of the corporation has pursued an aggressive commercial-expansion strategy designed to make it an international media powerhouse. The firm is gaining clout as a global broadcaster, content producer, book and magazine publisher, ad-services vendor and Internet firm. "We're fighting in the big boys' league," says Rupert Gavin, chief...
...plans to offer another choice: log on at www.bbc.co.uk, pick the episode you fancy and, at least if you're a British citizen, watch it free on your PC. That tantalizing prospect was raised by an announcement at the Edinburgh TV Festival in August by BBC director general Greg Dyke. The Beeb is planning a "digital creative" archive that will make what he calls "the best television library in the world" available online. It's a service, Dyke says, that the BBC's charter compels it to provide free to all British citizens. But BBC lovers abroad may have...
...kind of short-hand stereotyping that made it easier to categorize the women I was meeting at bars. I gradually came to understand the general looks associated with the words “butch,” “femmes,” “diesel dyke,” “baby dyke“ or “lipstick lesbians” and others as mechanisms for self-definition and description. From within the gay community as well, stereotypes based on dress became a way to declare identity...
...Only when these letters were going to Lord Hutton's inquiry into the death of weapons expert David Kelly did they arrive at the committee - a sequence it judged "unhelpful and potentially misleading" - for which he apologized. Hutton resumes work again this week, first summoning bbc director general Greg Dyke and some defense officials before recalling previous witnesses for cross-examination. No one is predicting a killer blow to Blair. But an accumulation of small cuts can still hobble...