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...Mergermania is a fact of modern life," said Redstone, whose VIACOM International, Inc. recently merged with Paramount Pictures and Blockbuster Video. "There are advantages and disadvantages to mergers, but they are not simply about economics. They affect the core values of our life...
...need to reform the Core Curriculum through expansion of offerings or a new policy of distribution requirements is paramount. A student who graduates with a willingness to explore and a desire to engage her interest should be the end goal of the College's mission to prepare students for the "vigorous life of the mind"--a mission which seeks to yield students who leave Harvard not with regret but with satisfaction...
...Penny Marshall, the first woman director to have a flourishing Hollywood career (Big, A League of Their Own) since Dorothy Arzner in the '30s, is joined by Amy Heckerling (Clueless), Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) and a dozen or so more. Trailblazing mogul-mama Sherry Lansing at Paramount has welcome competition in Laura Ziskin at Fox 2000 and Stacey Snider, Lucy Fisher and Lisa Henson at Sony. For once not all executive decisions can be made in the men's room. "Today, when green-lighting movie lists," says exec producer Lindsay Doran (The Firm and the forthcoming Sabrina), "maybe five...
...that its gruffest champions acknowledge design flaws. More than ever, the Secretariat appears to be a papermaking machine, the General Assembly an unwieldy debating society, and the mishmash of agencies spread around the globe a swamp into which good intentions can sink with barely a trace. Above all, the paramount U.N. duty of keeping the peace is in disgrace. All those recent ambitions of using the Security Council as the vehicle of a post-cold war new world order, with the Permanent Five members exercising a broad mandate from sympathetic countries to deter war, have proved as futile...
...bracket is a simple thing, really. It happens when a person arrives at a conclusion in matters moral that does not suit his own purposes. In response to his prejudices or wants, he begins to bracket, or forget issues he once deemed of paramount ethical concern. That is not all. The bracket is not complete until the person announces that his actions are motivated only by the highest of principles...