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Motorsport fans are a dedicated crowd. Give them the prospect of spending a huge sum of money to watch 22 Formula One cars screeching around a circuit for a couple of hours and they'll happily hand over their hard-earned cash. Offer them the chance to watch 90 rally cars storming sideways along a dirt track in 40?C heat and they'll trek up mountains for hours. Hardship comes with the territory. But will they sit in the comfort of their living rooms glued to their computer screens? That is what the World Rally Championship (WRC) is hoping...
...Many factors contribute to the success of our applicants,” Miller said. “There is no formula to get into Harvard...
...moving toward a world in which the star's image is controlled more tightly than a Stalinist party congress, a world in which the ideal picture is Jennifer Lopez making an entrance at the Grammys, a formula as carefully stage-managed as a perp walk. Either that or it's some spread of the stars at home, full of bogus informality and contrived intimacies. See enough pictures of some starlet flipping a flapjack, and in no time, you're longing to see Sean Penn giving you the finger. When you're ready, Galella has quite a few of those...
...original version, Pop Idol, British viewers dubbed Cowell "Mr. Nasty" but made the show a national sensation. American Idol follows the same formula. The judges crossed the country and heard thousands of crooners and caterwaulers, narrowing them to 30 who are performing on the series over a three-week period. Viewers voting by phone (3 million last week) will winnow them to nine, plus a "wild card" picked by the judges. The final 10 will perform (and get re-critiqued) each week, with one ejected every Wednesday until Sept. 4, when the winner will score a recording contract with...
...Germany, the world's second largest TV market after the U.S., Leo Kirch's premium TV service, Premiere World, boasts an impressive lineup of soccer matches, Formula One races and Hollywood movies, yet it has managed to lure only 2.4 million paying subscribers. After losing $1.4 million a day, it ended up dragging its parent company into bankruptcy, and buzzards from four continents have converged--among them Bertelsmann, Liberty Media, News Corp. and Sony--to pick at the carcass. In Italy, where stealing satellite service is pursued with the same ingenuity and gusto as is tax avoidance, two competing...