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...negotiators are expected to bring the union's board of directors a rough contract on Monday, the result of recent bargaining sessions attended by News Corp chairman Peter Chernin, Walt Disney chief executive Robert Iger and WGA negotiators David Young, John F. Bowman and Verrone. The negotiators have used the contract producers struck with the Directors' Guild of America last month as something of a template. That deal doubles residual payments for films and TV shows sold online and grants the union jurisdiction over shows created for the Internet...
...Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) responded promptly by reaffirming their recommendation that all HIV positive people should use condoms during sexual activity to prevent the spread of the disease. "The issue that the Swiss article raises is an important thing to consider," says Dr. Robert Janssen, director of the division of HIV-AIDS Prevention at CDC. "But I think it's premature to make the type of recommendation that they are making...
...color-blind” casting is a controversial one in the larger theatrical world. August Wilson, the African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, argued that ethnic experiences are distinct and unique, and therefore cannot be successfully intertwined onstage. By contrast, Professor of English, Emeritus, theatre critic, and playwright Robert S. Brustein, contended that racial issues could be resolved onstage when he stated that “theater works best as a unifying rather than a segregating medium.” This discussion is missing at Harvard. The theater scene still does not involve nearly the number of minorities that...
...part of the strong distance contingent for the Crimson men, as sophomore Robert Kenney finished second in the 1,000 meters to go along with Chenoweth?...
...president, says this attack, if it did kill al Libi, "shows that our intelligence is getting better, and that sometimes the Predator drones do work." However, he cautions, "It gives the impression that Pakistani sovereignty has been breached, and that builds resentment." Recent remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that the United States is "ready, willing and able" to conduct joint combat operations against rising militancy in Pakistan has only inflamed tensions. The prevailing opinion is that for the past six years Pakistan has been fighting America's war on terror, and has gained nothing but a virulent crop...