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...this is a comedy, similar in slapstick tone and comic asides to the Naked Gun movies. And like the police detective played there by Leslie Nielsen, Malone is a guy whose blithe stupidity brings physical harm to those around him - an idiot cocooned in delusion. It happens that Malone's story is narrated by Leslie Nielsen, playing an amiable but slightly loony oldster. So it's possible to take the whole movie as a parody of right-wingers' views of left-wingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Michael Moore Doing This Election? | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...believe that a Nielsen rating is worth the life of my children or your children. This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop." - On receiving death threats against himself and his family (ABC News, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kwame Kilpatrick | 10/28/2008 | See Source »

...last year—just months after Faust assumed the Harvard presidency—the book garnered largely positive reviews and impressive sales for a historical work. In its first five months in print, Faust’s book sold close to 40,000 copies according to data from Nielsen BookScan. Her most high-profile book before this year—Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War—generated some controversy among Civil War historians when it was published in 1997, but has sold under 10,000 copies since it was first...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faust Nominated for National Book Award | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...This increased the flexibility in the market.” After a reorganization of the market under a centralized authority, the researchers found that, controlling for other parameters such as seasonal effects and varying yearly interest in sports, the switch was a success, as measured by higher Nielsen viewer ratings and increased revenue for market participants. Despite focusing on the college football market, the researchers noted that their work had implications for a number of different markets. In 2004 and 2006, Roth helped design the high school matching system in for students in New York and the matching system...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Markets, By Way of The BCS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Meetic may be flighty in matters of the heart, but it's serious when it comes to business. Nielsen Media Research rated it the U.K.'s biggest Web advertiser in the first four months of 2008. Elsewhere, Meetic was similarly aggressive, buying a big dating site in Germany last year, as well as sites in the Netherlands, China and Brazil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsieur Cupid: Dating Online | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

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