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...Manny Pacquiao, the world's best pound-for-pound boxer, is jogging on a public high school track. There are palm trees in the distance, and the low hum of traffic on I-10 is starting to turn into a low roar as the Filipino boxer, clad in a red tracksuit, dashes around the dirt oval despite a painful shin splint. A handful of early-arriving students hang on the chain-link fence surrounding the track and watch him do his work. The Pac-Man is preparing for his March 13 fight against Joshua Clottey, a dangerous but relatively unknown...
...happened to be one of Cablevision's 3.1 million subscribers in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut on Sunday, you missed some classic TV: a closeup of Academy Award winner Mo'Nique's hairy legs on Barbara Walters' Oscar special, Kathy Ireland's freaky posture on the red carpet and Neil Patrick Harris singing about why inmates drop soap. That's because ABC cut off the signal of its New York City station to Cablevision subscribers just after midnight on Sunday morning, in a dispute over "retransmission fees," the money the cable company pays for carrying local broadcast stations...
...red carpet showdown was not the first battle over these fees, and it won't be the last. Stung by the recession and the general - and apparently permanent - ebb of advertising dollars away from network TV, media companies are searching the ground for every revenue scrap they can find. And their expensive-to-make network programming is a potentially juicy source. Whereas they used to pipe that content to cable companies for little or no cost, they now expect to be paid...
...Housing Day and you just found out you got into Dunster. Though some of your friends may shoot you pitying glances and offer you patronizing words of sympathy, fear not! Dunster’s negative reputation is merely a front to keep the joys of this red-towered House a secret for the worthy only...
Stone pulled Bellamy with 1:08 to play, but Harvard couldn’t find the equalizer. Clarkson advanced to the championship game, where it fell, 4-3, to Cornell in overtime—giving the Big Red the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament...