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...Sections at the College are also problematic. First, sections are just too large. If the idea of section is to provide a format for intimate discussion of the minutiae of courses, the reality is that they serve as a forum for students to rehash their "knowledge" of the readings and lectures when they are called upon. With a smaller maximum number of students in each section (say eight or 10), students would have more time to speak and feel more comfortable discussing their questions on assigned texts. Second, the current training of teaching fellows by the Derek Bok Center fails...
Besides, there remained a more important campaign to be waged--over standards for the much more lucrative market in rerecordable discs for computers. Last September, Sony set off a controversy by declaring that it had formed a consortium with Philips, Hewlett-Packard and Ricoh to produce a new format for the rewritable disc. "It has become very difficult to work out an international standard for anything these days," sighs Ohga...
...many business alliances as possible. Besides Grove at Intel, the Sony chief is spinning deals with Microsoft. Last April, Microsoft paid $425 million for WebTV Networks Inc., an Internet software provider that uses Sony hardware. IBM's Lou Gerstner could be a key partner in shaping a future DVD format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis and the comdex computer shows, in a venture to start JSkyB, a 150-channel satellite broadcasting...
...Personally I don't care too much about MTV, but I know I have to make videos because it's a format a lot of kids watch. Kids get turned onto new bands that way, and it's something you have to be aware of. It's weird, but it's fun sometimes too. Other times though, it can be a real drag, especially when you don't like a video and you have to keep seeing it in the rotation over and over. We're much more of a music band, we spend so much time on the music...
...fusion is not nearly so bizarre as it sounds. Msomi first penned the play 28 years ago in apartheid-riven South Africa, at the urging of a drama professor who suggested that he find a way to showcase and celebrate "the richness of our South African culture" in a format that might easily be understood by the rest of the world. Msomi's epiphany came when he realized that the political background of Macbeth-- the half-mythologized atmosphere of the warring clans of medieval Scotland--was eerily similar to that of the birth of the Zulu nation, united...