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...massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were brutally put down by Chinese military troops. But the issue, at bottom, was the same: how to respond? And here, China may well understand that 1989 was a long time ago. Beijing in those days could literally pull the plug on CNN and Dan Rather and then thumb its nose at the rest of the world. "It couldn't do that today even if it wanted to, and I don't think it does," the senior diplomat says...
...sought to assemble the complete media group whose affiliates all do business with one another. Now, says the Vivendi exec, "we've reinforced our media activities in key areas and allow our affiliates to do business with whatever companies fill their needs best--whether inside or outside the group." Plug and play has supplanted media monolith. Still, Messier points to companies like News Corp. and Disney as examples of how big content providers continue to drive convergence...
...opportunity for our membership to get exposed to a wide range of political ideologies.” Weatherl underscored the role that students can play in the political process. “I think the HRC is going to have a huge opportunity to get involved with the campaign, plug students into the political process, and elect Senator John McCain as the next president of the United States,” he said. John McCain posters, t-shirts and stickers were available for purchase in the back of the hall. Literature Professor Ruth Wisse, faculty adviser of the HRC, said...
Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
Brown opened up its largest lead of the game, 61-35, with 9:39 to play on a three-pointer by Adrian Williams, the Bears spark-plug guard who finished with 13 points and two steals...