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...meanwhile, staffers at the Late Show With David Letterman and Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson are breathing a sigh of relief after Letterman assured them this week that they would get paid at least through the end of the year, whether or not the shows resume production. Letterman was able to make that promise because both shows are owned by his production company, Worldwide Pants - unlike Tonight and Late Night With Conan O'Brien, which are owned...
...critic, I give the Iraq films now in release passing marks for good intentions and audiences an incomplete for poor attendance. Although nonfiction directors have tackled the war vigorously, from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, it looks as if we may have to wait for Hollywood's definitive Iraq-war film. But that's the way the movie industry works. In the decade that the U.S. military spent in Vietnam, only a few films surfaced, including John Wayne's bombastic The Green Berets and De Palma's anarchic comedies Greetings...
...then there are those academics who would rather be driven. As economic historian Niall Ferguson put it in an e-mail: “My personal preference is to sit in the back of a black chauffeur-driven Lincoln, so long as someone else is paying...
...Kevin Ferguson ’08, an intern with Google last summer said, based on his experience with the company, opportunities at the firm will go well beyond computer science. “They have a variety of departments, so you don’t necessarily have to know how to program,” he said, mentioning offerings in business, sales, human relations, and corporate communications...
...Some of the game's most celebrated coaches are split on the issue. Sir Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United, told a fan magazine, "It's certainly not wrong that clubs should be seen to have a proportion of home-based players. You want to protect your own, and there is nothing wrong with that." Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger, on the other hand, considers such ideas retrograde. He has said foreign quotas would "kill the Premier League" because it would impede the clubs' ability to find and field the best players possible. He also rejects the notion that quotas would...