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...Former Paramount executive Sherry Lansing, just given the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by her friend Tom Cruise, deflects a question about Cruise's ugly send-off from her old studio last summer. "It's hard for me to comment," says Lansing, who made many movies with Cruise before leaving Paramount 2 1/2 years ago. "I'm very good friends with [Viacom President] Sumner Redstone." She does make a prediction about Cruise's career: "He will be here winning an Oscar within the next five years...
...Safety is paramount for the new industry. The space pioneers know they are on borrowed time. In 2004 President Bush signed a law that basically gives them until 2012 to establish standards without the onerous rule-making of the 70-year-old airline industry. This month, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue guidelines for crew and passengers on spaceships. One bad accident and the door to space could be slammed shut. Rutan notes that the risk of dying on early planes was one in 6,000. Today, it's one in several million. He's not going to fly until...
...announcement, citing Zimmer’s own support of divestment in 2005 as Brown’s provost and the fact that the Kalven report left room for “the exceptional instance [when] the corporate activities of the university may appear so incompatible with paramount social values...
...efficiency. According to the report, the committee decided against the flexible plan because it would disrupt the tradition of House dining, which committee members said serves as the foundation of House life. “When we were examining the dining hall issue, we considered maintaining House life our paramount goal” said Stanley, a member of the Undergraduate Council (UC) as well as the CHL. “The dining hall is the central place of House life, where students meet and hang out with friends,” Stanley added. “We didn?...
...contract - was thought to provide a guaranteed stream of revenue for the British aerospace giant and safeguard thousands of jobs in the U.K. An extension of the deal, involving the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets, was agreed just last year. For Blair , Britain 's ties with the Saudis are paramount. "My advice was that this investigation would do enormous damage to our relations with Saudi Arabia," Blair told Parliament on Jan. 17, citing the Saudi role in combating terrorism. Blair also said that ending the contract could cause "thousands" of British jobs to be lost...