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Viacom, which recently yanked its programs from YouTube, has signed a deal to supply Joost with movies from Paramount and programming from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and other stations. TIME has learned that Joost will soon announce another big deal--with JumpTV, the world's largest distributor of international TV stations, to begin distributing programming from some of the 270 stations in 70 countries that JumpTV owns rights to. The deal will launch with prerecorded Spanish and Arabic programming from stations in Latin America and the Middle East. Eventually JumpTV plans to provide Joost with live streams from TV stations...
...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?...