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...media gathered outside the Hollywood, Fla., hospital where her body lay, one cable network correspondent observed there were more cameras present than he had seen at Yassir Arafat's funeral. But Anna Nicole Smith, 39, possessed a different kind of claim to fame and infamy. She went from a flat-chested, smalltown girl who worked at Wal-Mart and Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Texas to become a mega-celebrity of the 21st century sort, all name, little resume...
...replace Robert C. Wright, the NBC chairman who has occupied the position for 21 years. Zucker has been the chief executive of the NBC Universal Television Group since December 2005. He was responsible for all programming across the conglomerate’s extensive television properties, which include the NBC network as well as cable channels such as the USA Network, Bravo, and Telemundo. During his four years at Harvard in the 1980s, Zucker rose through the ranks to become both sports editor and president at The Crimson. “He liked to walk around giving advice, even...
...especially chaotic," says Butterfield. Google bought YouTube, which has generated a mountain of buzz, but Yahoo! has quietly leveraged Flickr, Answers and Del.icio.us, among other recent acquisitions and launches, to get its audience--which includes nearly half of the world's Web users--to spend more time on its network of sites. Yahoo!'s new ad system will capitalize on their presence--and on data it collects from their interactions--more efficiently, with more carefully targeted...
Poole is something of a trailblazer. Folks in or near retirement are getting wired as never before--and not just to e-mail the grandkids and view photos of their far-flung family members. They're going online to bank, invest, search for alternative medicines, find volunteer opportunities, network with interest groups, blog, become politically active and, like Hazel Poole, start up something new--for fun or profit...
...courses on the course menu for this spring mandating a community service component, students are increasingly seeing syllabi in which homework entails more than required reading. In a new collaboration, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Harvard Public Service Network held an information session yesterday to introduce students to 10 “activity-based learning” classes, three of which haven’t been offered before. Each of the courses includes community service to prompt students to draw from a volunteer experience for a deeper understanding...