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...performance, they remain on their collective toes when it comes to the business of making music, Wallach concedes that the record industry views “artists as commodities,” and that “only 3-5% of all major record label records make a profit each year.” However, the lead singer is confident that the band can succeed if they push hard now to combine “high quality music with public acceptance.” The group aggressively promotes its website, www.chesterfrench.com, and plans on freely distributing a seven song...
What happened? George Farah, a second-year student at the law school and the founder of Open Debates, a non-profit, non-partisan group, says the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is where the problem starts. After taking over sponsorship of presidential debates from the League of Women Voters beginning in 1988, debates have gradually deteriorated into what we have today...
Luckily, though, a number of groups are working to challenge the CPD and reform presidential debates. Open Debates launched a campaign to attack the CPD’s legitimacy in several ways, including by challenging the CPD’s non-profit status through the Internal Revenue Service. The organization hopes that these efforts, along with increased media attention after an upcoming press conference, will promote change. The Citizens’ Debate Commission was also established as an alternative sponsor to the CPD. The Commission, made up of a wide array of national leaders committed to civic education and real...
Representatives of the media industry, however, offer a different account of cultural consumption. Whereas critics like Roberts argue that a celebrity’s name on a cultural product offers a “safe profit,” book publishers and others invested in the culture production industry are hesitant to confirm such a claim. David Gale, Editorial Director for Simon & Schuster’s Books for Young Readers Division countered in an interview with the Associated Press that a celebrity author is a bigger risk than a first time author. Celebrity authors may cause resentment in other writers...
...could be that we will eventually move to the same external system that other schools use,” Meyer said. But he said external management would not lower costs and would only sweep the compensation issue under the rug since fund managers detached from non-profit organizations like Harvard are not required to disclose their salaries...