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This summer's committee—including two members of the 2004-2005 committee and four new faces—met for an hour-long introductory session the day after Commencement. It faces a steep challenge: the report produced by the 2004-2005 committee has been widely criticized for lacking a guiding vision and has generated little enthusiasm among the faculty thus...
...former Vermont governor that some at the convention were handing out "Dean for America" stickers, buttons and T-shirts from his long-over presidential campaign. Former Dean staffers, from former Internet adviser and popular blogger Jerome Armstrong to ex-campaign manager Joe Trippi, were speakers at many of the hour-long panels held at the convention...
...even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding of electromagnetism. Not quite. I’ve even laughed dry cackles of skepticism after emerging from hour-long lectures of incomprehensible professorial conjecture, knowing all the while that the test would be a painless regurgitation of colorful catch-phrases...
...some of the pain was eased when Daniloff was received as a celebrity at home. “I had speaking invitations all over the country all the time,” Daniloff remembers. And he says he was paid anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000 for the hour-long engagements. The story of his capture was eventually published in a 1989 book called “Two Lives, One Russia.” The book, which was intended as an “inside the Cold War” story, yielded only mediocre sales because by the time...
Consider yourself warned. ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are all developing English-language versions of the over-the-top Spanish-language soap operas known as telenovelas. Unlike American soaps, telenovelas air in prime time, with a cliffhanger at the conclusion of each hour-long episode, and end after a few months. The networks are hoping to find in the telenovela a new format, like reality TV, that will reclaim viewers who have soured on sitcoms, police procedurals and, well, reality TV. "The reality-TV genre is growing stale, and networks are looking for a new, low-cost format to fill...