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...taped conversations of President Lyndon Johnson or the writings of presidential historians, then shows like "The West Wing" can lay claim to improving the quality of democracy even as they make money. If, on the other hand, viewers conclude that politics is identical to the scenes of President Jed Bartlett fighting for everything a majority of Americans desire, or that it is just a simple matter of appearing to be neither too liberal nor too conservative, then they will be bitterly disappointed when they turn from viewing to participating. "The West Wing"'s President Bartlett is a protector...
Junior Pat O’Donnell lost 11-3 to Penn’s fourth-seeded John Henson in the first round in the 165-lb. class, and then 13-1 to Jed Pennell of Oregon State in the consolation rounds...
Presidents that attended Harvard: John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Josiah Jed Bartlett, Bill Pullman. Presidents that attended Yale: Warren G. Harding, Warren G, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Dan Quayle, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, O.J. Simpson, Emperor Hirohito, Henry VIII, Manuel Noreaga, Rasputin, Bill Maher...
...sales are way off; people are going to the theater, but they are not planning ahead--a potentially fatal blow to shows that depend on hefty spring sales to get through the slow winter months. And the outlook for future productions is dicey. "What investors are asking themselves," says Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, "is, If Broadway is already at the high-risk end of the investment scale, do I really want to introduce a new show into an uncertain environment? We may be seeing the effects one, two, three years down the road...
...very expensive to do right now," says Jed Grodin, who is in charge of music programming at Hypnotic, the online entertainment company, owned largely by Vivendi Universal, which recently subsumed the Web radio site Nibblebox. "The cost for one person to listen to one minute of music is so high. Streaming providers charge by the megabyte, so every person you add costs money." That means the more listeners a Web radio station attracts, the higher its costs, whereas old-fashioned, "terrestrial" stations have relatively fixed costs for a license, staff and facilities, and tend to get more profitable as they...