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...reading recently there is this huge wave of women with spectacular educations who are leaving the work force to look after their children. When I was growing up, we thought we had it best because we could have it all: family and career. It is always fragile, being a parent. What aria do you most like singing? The Song to the Moon, from Rusalka, is my signature piece. And what do you most like listening to? Susan Graham singing as the Composer from Ariadne and Placido singing Otello - he was the greatest Otello for 30 years. Luciano...
...past Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) suspended its bylaws in order to grant funding to the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), a student group that openly discriminates in its elections of officers. The constitution of the AACF’s parent organization, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship, requires that officers “subscribe without reserve” to articles of Christian faith. The UC’s decision was a serious lapse in judgment; funding a group that has a constitutionally-enshrined discrimination policy sets a dangerous precedent for future grant applications.According to an e-mail from Lowell House...
...that the networks' initial offerings are earth-shattering. They will sell only shows produced by their parent companies (including, for NBC, shows on sister cable channels USA and Sci Fi), because negotiations with outside producers would require haggling over fees. (Thus no My Name Is Earl for NBC, which buys it from Fox's production studio.) But the deals may multiply quickly. DirecTV has said it is pursuing deals with other networks, and Fox, its sister company in News Corp., is experimenting with distributing shows online. NBC and others are exploring an arrangement like ABC'S with iTunes. And while...
...trend throughout entertainment is portability. Viewers can get pared-down mini-episodes of shows, including Desperate Housewives, on their cell phones through services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent company) will offer computer downloads of past Warner Bros. series like Kung Fu through AOL (free but with ads), while Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network will sell shows for $2.99 for a media player made by toy company Hasbro. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences is even creating an Emmy...
...Podcasting trend, whether they offer Podcasts individually or collectively.Just as Harvard’s “Understanding Computers and the Internet” has attracted the eyes and ears of an international audience, the University Channel’s Podcasts serve a similar far-reaching purpose for its parent institution, Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.“It enhances the school’s role in serving the public because it opens it up to a much bigger public,” Liu said.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou...