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...other measures the director general would announce the following day. These would include a paring back of the BBC's much-vaunted news-gathering operation. How, Paxman wondered, could such a move be in line with the BBC's public-service mission, defined by its first director general Lord Reith, to "inform, educate and entertain." "Let me give you a list of the distinctive programs the BBC is making," said Paxman, his voice laden with sarcasm. "Help Me Anthea - I'm Infested. Is that the sort of program the BBC should continue making? My Man Boobs and Me. How about...
...Harvard feels much freer to invent. There’s a sense of spontaneity,” said Lord Richard T. Wilson, the master of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. That school, John Harvard’s student home, was founded in 1584. His colleagues from Oxford (founded in the 11th century) and Cambridge (founded in the 13th century) were among the crowd...
...lies" aimed at discrediting the President. Guillen says he received 24 separate threats on his life after Uribe's comments and left the country days later. Specifically, Uribe accused Guillen of being the ghost writer of a tell-all book by Virginia Vallejo, once the lover of legendary drug lord Pablo Escobar. Guillen denies having anything to do with the book. In Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, Vallejo calls Uribe's father one of Colombia's "first drug traffickers". The President's father was killed in 1983 by Marxist rebels in a botched kidnapping attempt. According to Vallejo, Escobar offered Uribe...
...realized (“I started crying and I couldn’t stop myself”), and shift nervously in our seats. Rob fixes you with his crazy, crazy eyes—and so you relent to play therapist to his apocalyptic paranoia a tad bit longer. Rob, Lord of Time, then leads you through a quick stock-film montage: Muhammad Ali fights! Feminism rules! Pelé wins! Matchbox Twenty plays! The Wall falls! Finally, Rob sings “I believe the world is coming to an end” while fireworks explode behind him. Which actualizes...
...Like Broseidon, lord of the Brocean...