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...concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public??€”the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion as the enemies he so steadfastly opposes—that our problems should be solved, not through collective sacrifice...
...amount of diverse programming at minimum cost, helping deliver music to listeners in an even more prolific way than the radio wave.What Bronfman glosses over is the important role that radio plays in the music industry. The PERFORM Act treats all listeners as guilty until proven innocent, limiting the public??€™s fair use of radio content, which could potentially generate a music purchase.Plus, since the industry as a whole seems on the verge of moving away from DRM, the PERFORM Act seems to have missed the boat on how best to protect copyrighted material. And as the flames...
...continuing to use the live music format that most stations have been using since the late 1920s, radio began to turn back to the recorded album in an attempt to save itself. At first, it seemed, the answer to radio’s problems was music and the public??€™s faith in a reliable DJ. The burgeoning record industry found its own personal soapbox in DJs who championed new releases.And, for the most part, the format worked. Martin Block, Alan Freed, and John Peel rose to national fame for their good taste and innovative programming. They simultaneously served...
This is not to say, of course, that all courses offered to GSAS and College students should be the exclusive province of these closed communities. The mission of the Extension School—to provide higher education to a broad swath of the general public??€”is urgent and worthy enough to be shared by the entire University, at least through avenues that would not detract from the learning of other Harvard students. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, offers unlimited access to syllabi, handouts, and other non-sensitive course documents on its Web site. FAS should...
While the practice of granting such options has been common in executive compensation packages, the study discovered that the outside directors had also received these grants without the public??€™s knowledge. The study did not reveal whether the directors themselves knew that the timing of their options was manipulated...