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Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC's global-news division, says the Internet channel "is forcing mainstream broadcasters to think what we can provide that they can't and to focus on our core values of objectivity and impartiality." That riles the denizens of Doughty Street, who claim the BBC has a liberal bias and are soliciting ideas for a campaign to stop the Beeb's taxpayer-funded subsidy. Not that Doughty Street is opposed to bias. "Do you know the problem with balance?" asks Dale. "It's boring." Quite a few Britons are starting to agree...
...same planet as we were." After earning a doctorate at University College London in medical history, he joined the Monitor Group, a management consultancy in Cambridge, Mass. "There's a dearth of management skills in nonprofits," he says, explaining that choice. When some colleagues broke away to focus on economic development in underdeveloped regions, he signed on. During a visit, he learned that every one of his African clients was deeply affected by health crises like aids and tuberculosis. "I realized health care there had to get fixed before these economies had a chance," says Ruxin. In 2002 he formed...
...talk shows and in political columns. She is probably telling a simple truth: that given the same intelligence and circumstances, she would vote for war again. We can criticize her judgment or critique the Bush Administration for cooking the intelligence, but we are not served by the focus on whether she utters the word mistake...
...hours before dawn on Feb. 26, East Timor's most wanted man, rebel leader Major Alfredo Reinado, drove into the small town of Same, 50 km south of Dili, with about 70 armed supporters. Many residents of the town sympathized with Reinado, who has been a focus of anti-government feeling since he led a mass desertion from the Army last April. When he and his men took over a house on a hill overlooking the town, groups of young men wrote VIVA ALFREDO on walls, held a sit-in at the crossroads about 100 m below the house...
...prepared the coding for the site, said that Votsu.com offers services that caters more specifically to its target audience. “One of our ideas is to connect ex-pats with family members at home,” Schlosser said. “Facebook can’t focus on such things; they focus on the U.S.” Christina A. Herndon ’08 said she joined the Vostu.com network in order to communicate with family members in Peru. “I wanted my cousins to be able to connect with...