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...several dollars for one in-flight phone call. The ground-to-air spectrum used for those in-flight calls came up for bid in July 2006, and JetBlue's subsidiary, LiveTV, purchased a slice from the Federal Communications Commissions to use for its Wi-Fi service. LiveTV will also offer the new service on its spectrum to other U.S. carriers...
...added that Washington made the offer in light of the story’s location and Counter’s help in navigating Harvard’s complicated filming guidelines...
...purely literary study, not debasing itself to performance. In 1905, George Pierce Baker came to Harvard and starting teaching a playwriting class where he taught the likes of Eugene O’Neill. More significantly, he started the Harvard Dramatics Club in 1908. According to Brustein, Pierce was offered an alumni donation of $1,000,000 to build a theatre at Harvard and allow the students in his playwriting class to mount their works.Yet university officials, still entrenched in intellectual prejudices against the study of dramatic works, scoffed at what they felt would be a frivolous pre-professional program.Baker went...
...Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, wanders around seemingly deserted rooms and communes with the rest of the band. He looks pretty messed up, an impression that’s only reinforced by his hazy surroundings. Bizarrely, the video features a piano-playing Lou Reed, whose gravelly voice and wrinkled face offer an interesting counterpart to the boyish Flowers. A choir of children cuts in and occasionally appears in a room previously occupied only by Flowers, making us wonder whether he’s hallucinating or lost in an old memory. Flowers ends up searching for something in the house?...
...Sharif, who has also been charged with corruption, was exempted from Musharraf's amnesty offer, so he has nothing to lose by supporting Chaudhry's reinstatement. Musharraf had earlier attempted to oust Chaudhry in March, but was forced to back down in the face of nationwide protests. Since then, the independent-minded judge has been at the forefront of Pakistan's only genuine grassroots political movement in the past few decades. Its demand for the rule of law and an independent judiciary transcends party lines, and if Sharif can tap the Chief Justice's movement, his party stands a better...