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Leaders within the University must choose programs to emphasize that can garner the support of the alumni community—a type of austerity measure that Faust said would strengthen the University...
...that's just for one network in one market. Similar negotiations are likely to take place in major TV markets across the country. Moonves, one of the most enthusiastic proponents of getting cable companies to pay up, has said that by 2012, he expects CBS-owned stations to garner between $200 million and $250 million in retransmission fees from the cable giants and others. Analysts at SNL Kagan estimate that such fees will bring in north of $900 million for networks this year, not insignificant, but a fraction of the $28 billion expected to be brought in by cable networks...
Following the announcement of proposed changes, Hammond and more than 25 other parents met on Feb. 24 and 25 to discuss their course of action. They planned appearances at the Cambridge School Committee meetings, drafted a written and online petition, and set up a Web site to garner further support for preserving the program in its current state...
...that said, the threat from Somalia needs to be kept in perspective. Al-Shabab is far smaller than the Taliban. "There are bigger gangs in L.A.," says the intelligence officer. It is prone to factionalism and has found it hard to garner support among ordinary Somalis. The U.N. has reported that al-Shabab receives funds and weapons from the Middle East and the Eritrean government. (Al-Shabab fights Ethiopia, and Ethiopia is Eritrea's archenemy.) But that support is small compared with the assistance that extremist groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan have received from radical Islamists around the world. Finally...
...cross-country race, a 14-sec. lead is a comfortable cushion. Yet Demong's push against Austria's Mario Stecher set up, for this observer's money, the most memorable finish of the Vancouver Olympics to date. It made you seriously wonder why this sport doesn't garner more attention in the U.S. as well as admire Europe's good taste in obsessing over an event that Americans foolishly offer a big fat yawn. After all, what's more engrossing than a good old-fashioned race to the finish...