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Lest students should fear a night of force-fed feminism, Stanchik assures that “Ostara” aims not to propagate a singular empowerment agenda or single-sex participation. Rather, it simply seeks to encourage broad participation in recognizing the importance of women in the arts. To that end, students Alexa L. M. von Tobel ’06 and Tom P. Lowe ’05 will co-emcee the program...
...going to challenge XM, the market leader. XM's chipsets and audio technology, developed in-house, are a generation ahead of Sirius' hardware. Last fall, XM was first to market an iPod-like portable-radio device. The company in 2004 began serving up traffic data in major urban markets, fed directly to a car's navigation system, a feature that Sirius has announced but hasn't launched. Another edge: XM's reported subscriber-acquisition costs of $62, vs. $177 for Sirius in 2004 (Sirius expects the cost to drop to less than $145 for 2005). XM chief Hugh Panero says...
...when I was 5 years old in 1948. We started watching it a lot. We watched Howdy Doody and the Lone Ranger. That was the stuff that was deeply imprinted on me. Little Lulu and Donald Duck and Felix the Cat - real basic popular culture that was fed to kids. My parents had no culture. Not what's considered a culture with a capital...
...fed up. Springfest was enjoyable, sure, but the students wanted high-profile bands and a party atmosphere. Fearing reaction from the five-year-old set, the University was holding back on both counts...
Almost by definition, his successor and the economy over which he or she presides will start off at a disadvantage, especially if Greenspan fails to steady the rocky economy in the months ahead. Some Fed watchers are worried that the President might pluck from corporate America a CEO with little formal finance background to run the Fed, as he did with John Snow at Treasury. The most likely candidates, though, are Martin Feldstein, a Harvard professor and former head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA); Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia Business School, who ran the CEA during...