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...This week the people of Southern California may have reached that edge. "We're in a state of shock right now," says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, director of the Cedars-Sinai Women's Guild Pulmonary Disease Institute in Los Angeles, who was preparing for an influx of smoke-inhalation victims at his hospital. "This is beyond thinking." Beginning overnight on Oct. 20, unusually fierce Santa Ana winds stoked fires that quickly burst into life throughout a dry, hot landscape. By midweek, more than 20 separate blazes formed pockets of fire running from the Mexican border north to Simi Valley outside...
...networks and movie studios are engaged in the programming equivalent of stocking up on canned goods in case the big one hits. The big one would be a strike, which looks a lot more likely now that the Writer's Guild of America (WGA), the union that represents 12,000 film and TV writers, voted this week by a margin of more than 90% to authorize their leaders to launch a walk-out when their contract expires at the end of this month. The last WGA strike in 1988 cost the industry an estimated $500 million. This time, "every producer...
...Google’s initiative to digitize books has not come without controversy, however: the Authors Guild and five publishing companies sued Google in 2005 for its search program, which allows users to search for keywords within copyrighted, as well as out-of-copyright, works. The suit is ongoing...
...will win? Frankly, even Cannes' veteran critics have no idea. Unlike the Oscars, this competition isn't preceded by other awards contests (the Golden Globes or Directors Guild or Screen Actors Guild votings), so there's no knowledgeable morning line. Further, the electors -the Cannes Jury -change membership 100% every year, so you can't go by past winners. Finally, it doesn't help much to imagine which of the competing films the jury president would like best. In 2002, when David Lynch was president, the winning film was Roman Polanski's very traditional The Pianist. Last year, ultra...
...statement. “Harvard has to make an active and public commitment to making free speech and peaceful dissent a mainstay of this campus,” Lee said. Gould-Wartofsky, Provost, and Lee were represented by Daniel Beck, an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild, who sported a black tie adorned with anarchist symbols at the hearing. Roosevelt was represented by Robert LeBlanc, a public defender. Gould-Wartofsky said that the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts was ready to help if the case progressed any further. Gould-Wartofsky and Provost have served as members of the Crimson...