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...Stewart points out, this is bad for America. It allows politicians to ignore the serious realities of the world and focus on the trivial games of media politicking. In the world of 24-hour news channels, it is not the candidate with the best policy initiatives or the best record in office who wins; it is the candidate with the biggest stockpile of embarrassing sound bites of his opponent...
Westin pointed to the rise of alternative news sources, such as the internet and 24-hour news channels, which have challenged networks to meet constant deadlines and provide continuing coverage...
Wait a minute. This is a Pixar cartoon? Instead of toys, bugs, monsters or funny fish, we get a midlife crisis and, in the first half-hour, enough domestic strife to fill a Mike Leigh film. But yes, this is Pixar, the studio that pretty much invented and perfected computer-animation entertainment, with such spectacular success that it wiped out the traditional approach that its distribution partner, Disney, had virtually patented. (The two animation titans have fallen into a rancorous dispute that's likely to end with Pixar's boss, Steve Jobs, taking the company elsewhere...
...lodgers' expectations rise, luxury purveyors are stepping up to the challenge. The 24-hour personal valets who attend to every detail for suite guests at Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, Mexico, are trained by the founder of the Guild of Professional English Butlers. Oberoi Hotel Group in India has a special department to research guest preferences before their stays. So when a customer who likes steam baths recently reserved a premier bungalow at Oberoi's Mauritius resort, he discovered upon arrival that he wouldn't have to bother walking the 20 yards to the spa because management had installed...
Some sitcoms leave just as little impression when they depart. Fortunately, this two-hour finale (BBC America, Oct. 21, 9 p.m. E.T.) offers a satisfying, touching and excruciatingly funny severance package...