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...October, major decisions were deferred to the first permanent dean of Radcliffe, who had yet to be appointed. By May, Penn historian Drew Gilpin Faust had gotten the nod for the dean's post and won over the hearts of Radcliffe staff and aficionados with an agenda of preserving Radcliffe's unique history while helping the Institute attract bright scholars...
...events," says 6th Element promoter Matt E. Silver, who has worked with best-selling electronica acts such as Chemical Brothers and Prodigy. "Now it's about deejay culture." In the movie Groove, the filmmakers refer to that connection between deejay and dancer, between promoter and satisfied raver, as "the nod." Many rave promoters and deejays don't do it for the money. They do it for the nod...
...electronic musician who is definitely getting the nod these days is the American deejay-composer Moby. Most deejays a decade ago were faceless shadows lurking behind turntables. Now deejays associated with the rave scene--like Van Dyk, Armand Van Helden, Keoki and BT--are artists, celebrities, superstars. "If Stravinsky were alive today, this is the kind of music he'd make," says BT, who composed music for the rave movie Go (1999) as well as the PlayStation game Die Hard Trilogy. "It just affords you a broader sonic palette to work from...
...mergers, of course, and the latest loomed large on Thursday with Justice Department trustbusters' approval of AT&T's acquisition of cable giant MediaOne, a corporate marriage that will create America's largest cable provider. If the other regulatory body involved, the Federal Communications Commission, gives AT&T the nod, the corporation will have successfully transformed itself from an old-school telephone giant into a high-tech force to be reckoned with - and will have done so remarkably quickly. Only Time Warner (the parent company of TIME.com) would rival the AT&T-MediaOne mega-company...
Warning to consummate - indeed competent - professional actresses: do not hope for recognition at Cannes. Instead, the nod will go to clueless amateurs who display their bodies or souls in so raw a manner that the jury will mistake pity for awe and give them the prize. Von Trier had earlier declared that Bjork was no actress, as if those who'd seen the film needed reminding. But Besson and the jury, which included oughta-know-better actors Jeremy Irons and Kristin Scott Thomas, didn't take the hint...