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...fans, and the stations who carry her talk-fest - and certainly for book authors whose work she championed - the final air date of Sept. 9, 2011 is all too soon. But given what Oprah wants to do next, it might be too late. She's leaving network TV to focus on creating OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a new cable channel that she's launching with Discovery Communications. She announced the venture almost two years ago but it will not start airing until January...
...midst of a recession and in the aftermath of last year’s failed Girl Talk concert, the College Events Board (CEB) decided to bring the focus back to students, said the group’s vice-chair, James A. McFadden...
...able to pull it off—to go through that tunnel by sheer willpower and talent and emerge as a giant in the field. But for every one that succeeds, there are thousands that fail. My parents understood the kinds of doubts and anxiety of having only one focus. Having come here, I decided not to concentrate in music under any circumstances, as a kind of personal policy...
...stopped short of offering an unabashed defense of human rights the way Hillary Clinton did on her 1995 visit to China or a hard-line demand for democracy the way former Vice President Dick Cheney did in Lithuania in 2006. Instead, he has sought at every meeting to focus on common ground, hoping for what he once described as a clearing away of "old preconceptions or ideological dogmas" so that nations will be more likely "to cooperate than not cooperate...
...North Korea, Obama announced that on Dec. 8 a U.S. diplomat will travel to North Korea to continue negotiations, but Obama said those discussions should focus on the nuclear issues and not "side items." He said he wanted to "break the pattern" of North Korea coming to the negotiating table followed by outward defiance of its own agreements. "The door is open to resolving these issues peacefully," Obama said...