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...Friar's Club japery that lards so many of these black-tie events. The comics who trooped on the stage to praise Carlin seemed to work especially hard to explain - to themselves perhaps as much as to the rest of us - just what made him such a crucial role model for a generation of comedians that followed...
...management teams at these companies have believed that as their customers moved online to get access to news, sports information, entertainment, video, and advice, that advertising dollars would follow. As consumers started to view movies on the internet instead of in theaters all of the money from the old model could be replaced and then some, because people would be willing to pay for the convenience of watching a movie online. In the case of newspapers, if they were eventually destroyed, they would be viable again on the internet...
According to Physics Professor Gerald Gabrielse, who will teach the course, the class was deemed a model Gen Ed course during the course of the curricular review...
...decided to celebrate the start of its presidency of the European Union by commissioning a sculpture that is controversial to the point of insult. Entitled “Entropa” and mounted in the foyer of the EU, the eight ton monstrosity takes the form of a model kit, with pieces intended to humorously represent each member country. The humor lies in the shocking nature of the stereotypes selected—Italy, for example, is depicted as a football pitch, whose players seem to be masturbating with their footballs...
...Customer loyalty comes easily in a fashion movement that can seem to border on a cult. The company requires its sales clerks to model its wares, both in stores and on its website, and that has resulted in some of its retail staff developing their own fan bases. Most popular among them is Keiko Mizoe, 24, a staffer in the Shinjuku store with the flawless complexion of a porcelain doll. "When people started to call me Princess Keiko, I didn't like it and didn't know what to do," Mizoe confesses. "But then I started to think that...