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When TV shows become something you order at whim from a cable box, or take on a plane, or carry in your pocket, what is TV? What is a network? After all, the networks, with their vast mid-century distribution systems, are in essence simply conduits for delivering programming from producers to viewers. Could the nets end up making their brands irrelevant? McPherson doubts it. "Whenever you're looking at airing your content in new places, you have to first consider the mother ship, which is the network," he says. Yes, but a mother ship can be part...
...Bulldogs had prevented the Crimson from maintaining its momentum right from the start when they forced the sure-handed Dawson into fumbling the ball inside the Yale five-yard line on the opening drive of the game. Dawson took the handoff and was on the verge of breaking the plane of the goaline before the ball slipped from his hands and was recovered by the Bulldogs...
...from a solitary existence of research archives and state schools, these academics are having a raucous good time, set loose upon one another. But with the daytime comes a cornucopia of panels spilling over with buzzwords, a spectacle undertaken to justify comfortable existences and expense accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face and tone and peering over her grandmotherly spectacles began, “Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman...
...plane en route to a labor-union congress in Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Borloo leans out of his seat and jabs a finger at a cluster of suburban housing projects below. "The very design of neighborhoods like that was meant to create zones that no one exits and no one enters," barks Borloo, who as France's Employment and Social Cohesion Minister has made revamping the country's blighted banlieues a personal crusade. Borloo insists that demolishing the "invisible but impenetrable walls" separating project residents from suitable housing, functioning public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert...
...each way). "We want to bring affordable business travel to a wider segment of the market," says MAXjet CEO Gary Rogliano. Eos is better positioned to be profitable, says Michael Mankins, a consultant with Marakon Associates. Reason: its fleet of retrofitted workhorse Boeing 757s. "The use of this plane is quite clever," says Mankins. "It's an aircraft with a low lease rate. For every seat that Eos sells, MAXjet will need to sell...