Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Since I've been here, I haven't seen muchprogress [on ethnic studies]. The Committee onEthnic Studies (CES) was raised from ad hoc tostanding committee status, which was good, but interms of concrete progress there really hasn'tbeen any," said Mina K. Park...
Local children can attend the Newtowne School at the First Church in Cambridge Congregational on Garden Street, a cooperative nursery school where youngsters learn and play together in a park nestled a safe distance from the traffic of Mass. Ave. Their parents, of whatever belief or non-belief, make sandboxes and swingsets and help the small faculty show their kids how to read, count and share the space in the classroom and the churchyard...
...ANGELES: The behemoth just keeps on chugging. "Titanic" is now the highest-grossing movie in the world, ever -- and there?s no sign of icebergs as it steams into the record books. Global ticket sales have reached a colossal $918 million, soaring past the puny $914 grossed by "Jurassic Park." Evidently, Spielberg?s dinosaur flick simply did not kill off enough of its extras...
Meanwhile, everyone interested in the intersection of TV and the Net is sitting straighter in his chair. South Park's low production values make it ideal for online distribution. But look down the road a few years when Net connections get faster and RealVideo-type technology improves, and you can see how easy it will be for people to give away everything from CDs to feature-length films. I figured Comedy Central would be thrombosing about this blatant theft of copyrighted material. As usual, I figured wrong...
...really aren't sure what to do," says Larry Lieberman, a savvy Web user who happens to be the guy at Comedy Central charged with handling this situation. "We do want to protect our property, but we don't want to alienate our fans." Lieberman understands why South Park is ripe for the stealing: its surprise success caught Comedy Central in short supply. Fewer than a dozen episodes have been produced, and they are getting heavily recycled. "With a new episode every week, the itch gets scratched on television," says Lieberman. "But we can't create episodes fast enough...