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...weeks later, BBC director-general Mark Thompson announced plans to kill off some 2,500 jobs, mostly in news and nonfiction programming, and to sell the BBC's iconic West London headquarters, Television Centre. Management is now trawling its staff for volunteers for layoffs. Says Roy Greenslade, a former editor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and currently a journalism professor at London's City University: "The BBC's problems are manifold. There are more dramas at the BBC than ever get shown on the screen...
...paid on average $1.38 a day in northern India and $2.25 in the south, and because the estates are so remote, workers must rely on tea companies for basic services. "The only long-term, sustainable solution is for estates to give workers a stake in the earnings," says Samir Roy, head of the Defense Committee for Plantation Workers Rights...
Mather House resident Roy T. Willey IV ’09 became the first to officially enter this year’s race for UC President. Current Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 is also expected to make a bid, with Finance Committee Chair Randall S. Sarafa ’09 as his running mate, but the two have not acknowledged their candidacy on the record...
...those composers that posterity forgot leads him occasionally to bite off a larger chunk than his readership can chew (the “Invisible Men” chapter in particular feels overstuffed), but for the most part he makes now-peripheral figures like Franz Lehár and Roy Harris feel as relevant as Dmitri Shostakovich and Aaron Copland—or even Bob Dylan and Bo Diddley.According to the Observer, Ross didn’t hear his first Dylan record until he reached his 20s, so there may yet be hope for Joyce-loving English concentrators with quaintly archaic...
...more tractable after we pass a gratuitous resolution that insults them? We should oppose the resolution because it would be an empty gesture certain to damage our international position. This is plain irresponsibility at a time when American troops are still mired in the thankless Iraq adventure. Bikash Roy, Cary...