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...America has proved it attracts listeners and advertisers. From an original audience of 120,000, the network more than tripled to 400,000 within three months, and now, according to the latest Arbitron ratings, reaches 2.137 million listeners a week, with 129,900 tuning in for the average quarter hour. Now and again, at least in New York City, Franken's midday show has out-pulled his right-wing nemesis Bill O'Reilly's; Randi Rhodes has lured more listeners than Hannity; Garofalo and Seder topped the rabid Michael Savage...
...Create an instant, full-time radio network around an ideology? So far as I know, the Air America scheme had no precedent. There had been stations with congenial formats, like the left-wing Pacifica and Amy Goodman's invaluable news-and-interview hour "Democracy Now" has built an informal network on radio and TV stations. There are many, many evangelical Christian radio stations, which bolster the right-wing talk count by hundreds. (If the Unitarians or Episcopalians have a radio network, it's not on my dial.) But these all grew organically, adding like-minded affiliates over the years...
...slip on the polished floor and down I go. I know immediately that I have refractured the foot I broke the previous year ... By the time we land in Moscow my foot is swollen and blue, and I know I must get it tended to. I have a four-hour layover, so airport officials get me a taxi and instruct the driver to take me to the closest hospital on the outskirts of Moscow. After X-raying my foot, the doctors confirm it is a fracture, apply a plaster cast, give me a pair of crutches and send me back...
...pursuing myriad, at times conflicting, causes, the United Front has avoided these problems and is pushing a clear message. Students should make every effort to attend this protest thereby sending a powerful message to Harvard—and the rest of the world. Skip breakfast, lose a precious hour of sleep, and do something that will make a difference. The more people who show up today, the more powerful the statement will be. Make the Harvard Corporation notice students’ passion about divestment...
...Harvard is a busy, tightly-wound research university,” he wrote in an e-mail. “President Summers’ estimate of 80-hour work weeks is probably close to the mark. This can, and does, make Harvard an exhilarating place for students and faculty who are engaged in their academic work and in intellectual issues...