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...even more fundamental challenge is to convince the government and the public that the BBC should continue to exist largely as is after its present 10-year charter expires in 2016. For almost two decades, the BBC expanded its operations rapidly as it tried to adapt to convulsive changes in technology and viewing habits. It funded these adventures with cash from license payers. It was already beginning to slim down again when, in 2006, the government limited increases in license fees over the next six years, leaving the broadcaster with a $4 billion shortfall. Cutting jobs and selling property will...
...million miles (32 million km) closer to it than Earth is to the sun. That gives the planet a roughly Earthlike year of 260 days and, more important, puts it in what astronomers call the habitable zone, the distance from its sun at which liquid water can exist. The planet is too dense and gaseous to harbor life as we know it, but if it has any moons, they could be warm enough and wet enough to get biology going...
It’s finally here. One of the most exciting games of the year is coming up this weekend, featuring one of those quaint, storied rivalries that could only exist between Ivy League schools. It’s got history, it’s got ritual taunts and jeers, and it inspires two student bodies not generally thought of as sports fanatics to yell their heads off at each other. In short, it’s one of the best times of the year for fans of Harvard athletics...
...grants, however, the College now has significantly more leverage to challenge UC expenditures. This was not a victory by any stretch of the imagination, although certain self-congratulatory members of the UC would have you believe so. In fact, students’ rights, to the extent that they even exist at a private university, would probably be more extensive today had the UC never engaged the administration at all and simply agreed not to reimburse students for alcohol...
...Australian life that it does in American. The churches have power, but compared with the U.S. our civilization is almost entirely secular. Our state-sponsored education is excellent, and we do not give a cent in subsidies to church schools. And we have fierce democratic commitments that hardly exist in America. It is, for example, a (lightly) punishable offense not to vote in a national election. As for campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that the pursuit of them creates in the U.S., they don't exist in Australia; a whole national election costs less...