Word: golden
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...Bros., HBO and Cinemax), publishing (including TIME, Book of the Month Club and Little, Brown Publishers) and music (including the Atlantic and Elektra labels)--adds to its roster such gold-plated assets as CNN, TBS, TNT, a vast film collection and some 28,500 television programs. Levin paid a golden price too--178 million shares of Time Warner stock, worth about $7.57 billion...
...what are we to make of all this? Is the news dying, or entering a Golden Age? Are people uninterested in news, or just getting it in less conventional places? And what sort of news are they getting? Is it what they need to cope in a complex world, or just a lot of blather between the ads? These are the questions that every news organization must face as it tries to compete in the era of information overload...
...times. Four comedy CDs--by Jeff Foxworthy, Adam Sandler, "Weird Al" Yankovic and the Jerky Boys--have made it to Billboard's Top 25 this year. New comedy labels are being launched--one by Eddie Murphy--and classic albums are being reissued. It's hardly a return to the Golden Age of the '50s and '60s, when albums like The 2000-Year-Old Man and My Son, the Folksinger were nationwide crazes. But comedy albums are making a comeback...
...Strategic Offense Society, are deemed evil because they are "manifestly opposed to traditional Christian values," not to mention "their never-ending quest for special privileges...such as office space." Christian values according to whom? And where in the Christian Bible is hatred considered laudatory? Isn't the Golden Rule to "love thy neighbor?" It seems that Peninsula's world view, like that of the Catholic Church during the Spanish Inquisition, comprehends legitimacy only as autocratic sanction. Moreover, they contend that office space, which is a good measure of institutional sovereignty on this campus, should only be doled...
...landmarks by which cities identify themselves, bridges are the most evocative. Prague has its Charles Bridge, Florence its Ponte Vecchio, San Francisco its Golden Gate. Bridges signify entry in a dramatic way that tunnels and ring roads simply cannot. So, as a way of projecting ideas for London's future, the Royal Academy asked seven European architects to design a new bridge for the Thames. Specifications: it should be inhabitable, which has set the city talking...