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...Rival to Formula...
...Formula One racing is popular around the world, with more than 350 million fans regularly watching it on broadcast TV. Some carmakers fear that Kirch Media, the German company that will control worldwide TV rights for the next 100 years, will use racing to boost its ailing pay-per-view channels. These carmakers, who sponsor racing in return for advertising reach, want to protect against that. So Ford, Fiat, Daimler-Chrysler, BMW and Renault have proposed an as-yet-unnamed rival racing circuit, to debut when team contracts are up for renewal in 2008. Kirch spokesman Hartmut Schulz insists, "Carmakers...
...Vroom! Michael Schumacher passed the checkered flag for a fourth World Championship and a pair of records. A 52nd Formula One victory for the German driver outpaced Alain Prost both in races won and championship points scored. Poor Prost lost more than his No. 1 spots: his F1 racing team ran out of track and called in the receivers...
...James was a counterintuitive choice to head STAR. After leaving college, he had shied away from News Corp., founding Rawkus, a record company that specialized in rap-metal bands a few years before Limp Bizkit made millions with the formula. He also had a brief dalliance with cartooning, producing a strip whose antihero "Albrecht the Hun" preferred literary pursuits to raping and pillaging. But James eventually set aside his own artistic impulses and joined the family fold. He first took over News Corp.'s small but troubled music division in 1996. Next, with investors clamoring for greater involvement with...
...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren’t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...