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Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
...crowds flocking to video stores represent an important new source of income for Hollywood. Home-video revenues only slightly offset the deficits of big-budget extravaganzas like The Cotton Club and Dune. But smaller films can go a long way toward recouping their costs with cassette sales. "The producer can anticipate a profit even without a theatrical success and, in some cases, without a theatrical release," says Jon Peisinger, president of Vestron Video. "More movies today are created simply on the basis of potential revenues from home video." Vestron was the distributor of The Warrior and the Sorceress, for example...
...million since 1979 to cover losses at the morning Detroit Free Press (circ. 646,476). The smaller, family-run Evening News Association, which owns the all-day Detroit News (circ. 666,949), has paid even more. It allegedly used revenues from five television and two radio stations to offset an estimated $41.5 million in losses at the paper from 1981 to 1984. ENA Chairman Peter B. Clark has defended the News like a crusader in a holy war; the paper was founded by his great-grandfather James E. Scripps in 1873. Last week, however, Clark's efforts to uphold family...