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...clear, liberal view: a limited government plays roles that private institutions and private citizens cannot. TIME: Is there a difference in business education in the U.S. and in Europe? Tyson: There tends to be a global model. While business education has a more established reputation in the U.S., the format - case studies, group working, industrial placements, etc. - is being followed at leading non-U.S. schools. TIME: What got you interested in economics? Tyson: Sometimes you are just lucky in life, in finding something you enjoy. It combined analytically interesting questions with practicality. I've always wanted to feel...
...Gable, Sinatra, Garbo, Welles - was asked to dance a little. Many of them (Cagney, Stanwyck) were quite good at it, having made a living as Broadway hoofers before they went west. Broadway and vaudeville were training grounds for a lot of 30s stars, and for the early talking picture format as well. The idea was to give the movie audience a little bit of everything: comedy, drama, song, dance. Young moviegoers saw the dancing, liked it, and wanted to try it. When talent matched ambition, a new generation of dancers was born, restocking Broadway and Hollywood...
...Land, the swapping comes on top of another, potentially bigger threat. While college kids and geeks are swapping comedies and cartoons online via PCs, a controversial new device called ReplayTV 4000--think of a supersmart VCR--lets regular nontechie folks save television shows in pristine digital format directly from their TV, then watch them commercial free and send them over the Net to other Replay users. Hackers have even figured out ways to copy Replay files to their personal computers, where the files can be uploaded by users of Morpheus and similar programs for wider dissemination...
Napster's trial version has much the same paltry-selection problem. But assuming it can get its hands on some licenses before it launches, the struggling service shows more promise than its record-label rivals. True, most songs are in the protected .nap format, which means you can't burn them onto a CD. But there are a few independent labels that let Napster offer MP3 files that are yours for life. It is hoped more labels will follow suit...
Director of the Forum William H. White said that after Swift dropped out, the event’s sponsors decided to change the format of the debate to include only the Democratic candidates because that race is the only primary currently being openly contested...