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...Because the DVD business is, in one important way, the opposite of the TV business. Traditional TV, which depends on ad and syndication sales, rewards breadth of appeal: the ability to keep millions from changing the channel. DVDS reward depth of appeal: the ability to get thousands to pay to watch something again. One reason there are so many cop dramas, for instance, is that their stories, which are resolved in an hour, sell better in reruns. Series like Alias and 24, which have deeply involving serial plots, are poor candidates for reruns, but they have committed fan bases willing...
...schools with finals after Christmas are willing to change, the four J-term schools should be willing to as well. Unless all of Harvard University meets halfway on calendar reform, students from the College and four other schools will be left with a flawed J-term as their only reward for their sacrifice. Harvard University’s calendar can serve students best by finding common ground among its nine members...
...Islamic group Abu Sayyaf, and five fellow militants in a shootout with government troops; on the island of Basilan in the southern Philippines. In 2002 the U.S. indicted Sali in connection with the 2001 kidnapping of three Americans, two of whom died in captivity, and offered a $5 million reward for his capture. Sali's death marked the latest victory for the Philippine government in its recent crackdown on the extremist group. Earlier this month, police arrested six alleged Abu Sayyaf members and seized 50 kilograms of explosives, which authorities said were earmarked for bombings in Manila...
...Such stresses will make a Pan-Blue counterattack in December even harder. Taiwan's legislative contests reward discipline. Parties must allocate votes among many candidates in the same district; failure can mean losing seats despite winning the most votes. Most united these days is the DPP, which works well with its ally, a party formed by former President Lee Teng-hui, who quit the KMT in 2000 and now supports independence. The DPP expects to win over alienated voters from the KMT's bentuhua side who are disturbed by their party's histrionic reaction to the election. "The biggest beneficiary...
...unarmed policewoman with a blast of machine gun fire from its London embassy, and still supports Robert Mugabe's despotism in Zimbabwe. So seeing Tony Blair shake Gaddafi's hand last week in a ceremonial tent near Tripoli was a head-snapping diplomatic moment. But to Blair, the reward justified the awkwardness: after years of negotiations with London and Washington, Gaddafi has crated his nascent nuclear and chemical weapons programs. Moreover, he's no friend of al-Qaeda, which loathes his secular state, and is willing to share intelligence to bring it down. The idea that a pariah regime like...