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...weekly news program Dan Rather Reports on HDNet, a high-definition TV network that airs in 3 million homes. The one-hour show will draw heavily from the Rather repertoire: field reports, investigative stories, interviews. "I want Dan Rather to be Dan Rather," says Mark Cuban, sports mogul and chairman of HDNet. To that end, he named Rather the show' s producer and gave him full editorial control. For Rather, that means he can pursue stories without worrying about what the suits upstairs think. "Free people in a democratic system need hard news," says Rather, who plans to roam...
...reel lives in The Purple Rose of Cairo - or if you sometimes think your life is a movie, and wonder what the DVD commentary would sound like - Stranger Than Fiction will strike a familiar chord. But mainly, Helm's script might have been confected to answer a Hollywood mogul's call, "Give me a Charlie Kaufman script, but make it adorable. The movie answers that call. With busy, doesn't-miss-a-trick direction by Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) and supporting performances, including Maggie Gyllenhaal's as the mandatory love interest, that underline all the appropriate gags...
Harvard’s project manager for the bells said last week that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
...Harvard's project manager for the bells said Thursday that a foundation backed by a Russian metals mogul has agreed to pay roughly $1 million to transport the 25 tons of sacred bronze back to Moscow and buy replacements for Lowell, possibly ending a decades-long ordeal in which Harvard sought to repatriate the bells but declined to pay for their transfer...
...there were just 10.7 million Americans age 80 and older. By 2030 there were nearly 18 million--1 out of every 20 people. Continued advances in medical science meant that more and more people were living as long as a century--good news for the likes of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 2031. But the rising proportion of the population in retirement imposed an ever higher tax burden on those still working. It also placed a sustained strain on the U.S. balance of payments, as the country consistently imported more than it exported, financing...