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...What usually happens is ridership declines slightly, but the overall revenue usually goes up a little more than ridership decline,” said Luberoff, who co-authored the 2003 book Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment...
...headline-grabber, an isolated case of mad cow disease in Washington. See, unlike many of my fellow pretentious intellectual types at Harvard, who read all the news that’s fit to print on a daily basis but rarely deign to catch the evening news, I appreciate what mega-conglomerate news can provide for people like me—a dose of reality, American pop-culture style. It keeps me in touch...
...MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Kiss Me, Quick The National Council for Radio and Television handed a 5100,000 obscenity fine to TV station Mega Channel for broadcasting a five-second smooch between two men. In response, about 30 gay-rights activists held a kiss-in outside the regulator's offices in central Athens. The kiss aired in the popular late-night drama series Close Your Eyes; the oft-aired embrace between Madonna and Britney Spears at the MTV Awards in August went uncensored. Gay TV : Absolutely Pink
There is a big difference between Harvard and what Donahue and Fitzsimmons call “mega-money” scholarship options at places like the University of Virginia and Duke, scholarships which not only forgive a student’s tuition but give out extra money as an incentive to enroll. “We’re not in the business of paying students to come here,” she says...
...reasons behind the trend include the lengthening period of engagement; the vogue for mega-weddings, with their attendant stresses, expenses and complications; and the fear of divorce. The longer the engagement, the more time for disillusionment and the greater the likelihood that the wedding will be called off. A Bride's magazine poll found that the average period of engagement rose from 11 months in 1999 to 16 months in 2002. Sometimes, an engaged couple want to live together to test the relationship (6 in 10 live together before marriage, according to Bride's). By the time they're halfway...