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...messier aspect of Harvard’s curriculum is the much-debated Core, which was implemented a little under 25 years ago to much praise. However, time and practice has made many students and Faculty think twice about its merits...
...they're going to try to do it with satellite. Why? Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier settled on EchoStar-Hughes (which owns DirecTV) for the same reason Rupert Murdoch wanted Hughes before EchoStar moved in. Most of the nation's cable lines are in the hands of rivals like AOL Time Warner (parent company of this writer) and half-rivals like AT&T Broadband and Comcast who have plenty of content-distribution deals already inked - making reasonably priced access via cable into the U.S. couch-potato market hard to find. Making EchoStar-DirecTV and its control of 90 percent...
...JEAN-MARIE MESSIER Put an ambitious, cosmopolitan French banker in charge of a 148-year-old French water company, and you get...a global-media megalith called VIVENDI UNIVERSAL, with telecom and cable assets in Europe; TV, movie and music studios on both sides of the Atlantic; and theme parks in the U.S. and Japan. Internet maven Messier, 44, may have racked up too much debt on his recent acquisition binge. But Vivendi posted a 30% jump in third-quarter cash flow, thanks much more to subscriptions than advertising. Just like in the water business...
When I was the Assistant Editor, putting out What Is To Be Done? every week was a little like writing a term paper in a course you really loved, only messier. You had a deadline; it didn’t matter if you felt like it; it was going to be exhausting; it was going to be exhilarating; it was largely about words you cared about, terrifically; you were going to get to eat a lot of junk food; and you knew, absolutely, you were going to be up all night. It’s funny, though...
...Registration is this very complicated system to manage. And with the advent of groups doing a lot of registration drives and having more control over the registration process, and people registering online, the situation has gotten even messier. We anticipate things are going to get a lot worse until someone takes control over the situation. People think they?re registering and they?re not, or there are computer malfunctions...