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...makers of "Buffy," and its producer, Fox Television, wanted a substantial jump in the approximately $1 million an episode the network had been paying. (As with many series, this meant operating at a loss for the expensive production, with the hope of making it up in syndication and richer later-season deals). Talks were at an impasse and bad feelings running high when UPN jumped in with a reported offer of about $2.3 million per episode, which creator Joss Whedon and Fox leapt at like a vampire at a Red Cross bloodmobile wreck...
...former adviser to Chile in free-trade talks with the U.S. "Growth is the key question facing Latin America today," Velasco said. Analyzing the ways that developing nations could achieve more rapid growth, he said a "great bet for the next decade" was to "integrate yourself into a richer area" - precisely the path of the FTAA. "You import the institutions and procedures of that richer area, and then you grow. That works," he said, citing such cases as Portugal, Ireland and Greece in Europe, "countries that have caught up very quickly to the income of that area." The economic success...
...subject: bold and graphic for portraying designers, ethereal for spiritual leaders. "When it's done very well," she says, "the process is invisible." The Golons have lots of wizardry planned for our next eight installments, which will showcase such talents as athletes, musicians and thinkers. For an even richer version of each chapter, check out time.com/Innovators.
...Saddam is doing pretty well these days. Or is he? What the summit demonstrated is that things would be going better for Iraq if it wasn't for Saddam. True, he has been getting richer, thanks to snowballing illegal trade across Iraq's borders with Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iran. The intifadeh in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is another godsend. With ever louder public demands for an end to Iraqi suffering, Arab states are violating a ban on commercial air travel with regular flights to Baghdad...
Councillors said they felt slighted by the University's decisions. They said they had heard nothing of the Boston initiative before it was announced and had been taken by surprise by newspaper articles last week describing the richer gift...