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...against ABC's juggernaut Dancing With the Stars. Set in the rural fictional town of Dillon, Texas, where the local high school football team is tantamount to the community's church, the series was quick to garner praise from reviewers, including TIME's James Poniewozik, who cited its rich characters and excellent performances. But in that other realm, where advertising revenues dwell, the response to Friday Night Lights has been considerably less glowing. Since its debut the series has hovered between 69 and 72 in Nielsen's ratings of top 100 shows. "I'm enormously frustrated," concedes NBC Entertainment President...
...seven officers dismissed over the case in recent days for dereliction of duty, the Noida scandal has reignited a national debate on police reform. Indians typically regard the police as corrupt and inefficient, and this case lends credence to the widespread perception that they focus primarily on assisting the rich and powerful. When the 3-year-old son of a wealthy resident of Noida was kidnapped in November, police launched a massive manhunt and recovered the boy within days. Indian media were quick to compare the two cases. "In a suburb in which the police swung into action so expeditiously...
...forget about phone calls. Look at the video, which is impressively crisp and plays on a screen larger than the video iPod's. This is the first time the hype about "rich media" on a phone has actually looked plausible. Look at the e-mail client, which handles attachments, in-line images, HTML e-mails as adroitly as a desktop client. Look at the Web browser, a modified version of Safari that displays actual Web pages, not a teensy crunched-down version of the Web. There's a Google map application that's almost worth the price of admission...
...beautiful surroundings, great service and fabulous food, but they often fail to capture the vernacular of the country they're in. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, a melting pot of ethnicities, has no shortage of five-star accommodation, but the Oberoi is one that manages to embrace its rich local heritage. Striking Indonesian stone sculptures nestle in subtropical gardens alongside African artifacts and sugarcane thatched-roof pavilions. And its Touching Senses program introduces guests to the island's art, nature and diverse culture. Lessons range from oceanside painting with local artists and aromatherapy using the oil of indigenous plants...
...confirm their view of Harvard as a bastion of politically correct liberalism run amok, if only the presidential search committee would give them the ammunition. On the other end, however, are those who are convinced that Harvard is nothing more than a conservative and self-perpetuating society of rich old white men, who need nothing more than the selection of the 28th white male Harvard president to vindicate them. With people on both sides waiting with bated breath for our university to make a grave misstep in either direction, we find ourselves in a textbook case of "damned...