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...People will leave the course being seriously addicted to this stuff," says Robert D. Levin, the course's instructor and Robinson professor of the humanities. "They will have a sense of when jazz advanced from something at research centers and became the national popular music...
...Further speeches and interviews--including several in 1997 and 1998--attacked Kenan Professor of English Majorie J. Garber and also Levin Professor of Literature Stephen Greenblatt, who has written on Marxism and its application to literature...
Then came the happy news. While I was naively prepared to believe the main purpose of the merger was to make more money for shareholders, all present assured us that the new entity was there to serve the public interest. Case: "Ultimately, this is about serving consumers." Levin: "The values that we feel we can leave as a legacy...have a lot to do with the social destiny of people everywhere...
...cyberspace being something new under (or rather beyond) the sun--they foresaw no antitrust problems, even though the $165 billion takeover is the biggest in history. "This thing is instantly available everywhere...so it's my view that this is kind of a clean break with the past," said Levin. "I don't see a regulatory problem." He is undoubtedly right as a predictor of government (in)action. Which is to say the takeover will probably be the beneficiary of the Robert Bork-Chicago School efficiency theory of antitrust, which bloomed with Reagan and his deregulators...
...assume that Case, Levin, Ted Turner and Bob Pittman are the benign presences they appear to be. The problem has to do with putting the structure in place now for what will certainly happen later. It has to do with what media critic Ben Bagdikian prophesied more than a decade ago: that fewer and fewer corporations would come to dominate the media environment, resulting in the free-enterprise equivalent of a Ministry of Culture. It has to do with mega-communications conglomerates that are already bigger than the economies of countries whose monopolistic information policies we condemn as a violation...