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...thing ABC (and other networks) can count on is a drawn-out brouhaha with the Screen Actors Guild, the Directors Guild, and other Hollywood unions. Unions are already demanding a boost in residuals members earn for iTunes downloads, and they may ask for additional money coming from the new revenues generated by streaming video ad sales. SAG says all unions combined now get a piddling two cents for each $1.99 download, with actors receiving about half of that, and the Writers Guild of America, which represents scriptwriters, says their residual amounts to less than half a cent. For its part...
...enabled my promotion to the Indians’ Class A affiliate Lake County Captains. One of the starting pitchers felt a twinge in his shoulder after the team arrived in Ohio and attempted to practice during a light snow flurry. Though this is admittedly not the ideal way to earn a promotion, I am nevertheless thrilled to be with a team and playing meaningful games in front of thousands of fans...
...terrorist organization working to liberate the Emerald Isle from British rule, has just detonated a bomb at Scotland Yard. Barker and Llewelyn immediately offer their services to the government and infiltrate a secretive IRB faction, posing as a German bomb maker and his assistant. They must work to earn the group’s trust while preparing to stop its ultimate plan to bring London to its knees—without concern for innocent life and perhaps more for personal than national gain, of course. Llewelyn, for his part, must also fight against his desire for Maire...
Mobius’s study, published in The American Economic Review last month, builds on data that shows that workers labeled physically attractive earn about 10 to 15 percent more than their plainer peers...
...Democrats are going to need someone with instant, coast-to-coast credibility on national security. Hillary Clinton has worked hard as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but no matter how well-versed she is in military affairs, she still hasn't earned the kind of instinctual trust needed to earn votes on that front. The governors Mark Warner and Tom Vilsack don't inspire that kind of confidence either. Only dark horse Wesley Clark has the kind of credibility that Dems want, but he has other political shortcomings...