Word: ownerships
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...traded home-video label Genius Products in exchange for licensing the DVD rights to Weinstein movies--a "pretty radical" move, says Genius chairman Stephen Bannon. Genius distributes material from World Wrestling Entertainment, Discovery Kids and ESPN and in November signed an exclusive rental agreement with Blockbuster. Other affiliations include ownership of a small arts and entertainment channel with Hubbard Broadcasting, J.P. Morgan Chase and Perry Capital; a publishing pact with Hachette; a production arrangement with BET founder Robert Johnson; and a new Latin American film fund...
Calling the state of higher education “gloomy,” Interim President Derek C. Bok said yesterday that faculty need to take greater ownership for the state and improvement of undergraduate education. “I have not encountered many faculty who are even aware about how much students actually learn while in college,” Bok said at yesterday’s annual meeting of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. “Only faculties can actively improve the quality of teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms...
...block, it was another response to stockholders' insatiable demand for rising returns, even for papers with loyal readership and steady ad support. But now that a bevy of bigwig buyers are itching to own prestigious dailies, newspapers in key markets may benefit from a return to private ownership. Why would baron bidders like Hank Greenberg, Jack Welch and David Geffen--who have expressed interest in the Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth newspapers? Perhaps they're aware that 85% of adults either read a paper every week or visit...
...Perhaps wisely, Bush is not offering himself as the Answer Man. Instead, his aim is to remind Iraqis that he wants to support them in solving their problems, not taking ownership of them. National Security Adviser Steve Hadley told reporters on Air Force One on the way to Estonia that Bush will be a good listener at the meeting. "We're not at the point where the President is going to be in a position to lay out a comprehensive plan at this point," Hadley said. Instead, Republican officials have said, the President plans to announce "a way forward...
...computer to make a screen grab of the image, " ... and may never see it again." Here's an odd thing about Eno: as much as he relishes the ideas of transience and randomness that come with generative art, as much as he challenges accepted notions of artistic ownership (every image on 77 Million Paintings is copyright free), Eno is a ravenous collector. As well as recapturing screen snapshots of the very art he's set free, he keeps an archive of his own recorded interviews, clips newspapers, and hoards rusting canisters of slides and colored gels from his earliest works...