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Vest’s administration also oversaw the creation of MIT’s recent OpenCourseWare initiative, which places the teaching materials for over 2,000 of its courses—including science classes that address potentially sensitive subject areas—freely available online...
...estimated annual revenues of $1 billion. "Why should he make records?" asks Russell Simmons, architect of Def Jam, the original hip-hop conglomerate. "Records are a distraction. He could be missing an opportunity to get really rich. I haven't produced a record for 15 years." Simmons, who once oversaw classic albums by Run D.M.C. and LL Cool J, adds, "Making records is over...
DIED. LAURENCE A. TISCH, 80, co-founder of Loews Corp. and former head of CBS; of cancer; in New York City. The Brooklyn-born Tisch began building his empire at 23 by buying a resort in New Jersey. Later, as head of Loews, he oversaw $70 billion in assets, including hotels, tobacco, insurance and watches. He gained control of CBS in 1986 with the support of founder William Paley and oversaw an era of major cost cutting and declining ratings at the so-called Tiffany network before selling the company...
Does this make CBS innocent of liberal bias? No. CBS executives, after all, approved the script and oversaw production without thinking it would cause a fuss. They had wanted a love story about Nancy and Ronnie and--until news of conservative objections broke in the New York Times--they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred...
...Does this make CBS innocent of liberal bias? No. CBS executives, after all, approved the script and oversaw production without thinking it would cause a fuss. They had wanted a love story about Nancy and Ronnie and - until news of conservative objections broke in the New York Times - they apparently thought that was more or less what they got. The irony is, they were trying to pander to Reagan's fans; they just proved spectacularly bad at it. But if CBS's executives were not floating in the warm, like-minded liberal womb of Hollywood, it might have occurred...