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...future seemed uncertain after Sony, Comcast and a group of private equity firms acquired its parent MGM in 2004. But now, along with "substantial ownership," Cruise and Wagner will set United Artists' production slate and Wagner will serve as CEO. Cruise will star in and produce films for the revamped company, which plans to deliver about four movies a year to start. Marketing and distribution will be handled...
...Slate officially published the data as it received it, arguing that readers "should know as much about the unfolding election as the anchors and other journalists." Granted, Slate also cautioned that the early exit poll data was not conclusive. Yet that disclaimer did not stop bloggers from "chattering" about the early numbers, says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center. Because of the online leak, "it became widely believed from about 3 p.m. to 7 p.m that John Kerry was ahead," Kohut says. "This online leak caused the stock markets to go down and sent Washington in the wrong...
...opinion column, "This Word is Killing Me, Literally," failed to reference the Slate Magazine article "The Word We Love to Hate" as a source for its citation of quotes from "The Great Gatsby" and "Little Women." The Crimson regrets this error...
This past Monday The Crimson published an editors' note regarding Victoria Ilyinsky's Oct. 16 column, "This Word is Killing Me, Literally," stating that the piece failed to reference the November 2005 Slate Magazine article "The Trouble With Literally" as a source for its citation of quotations from "The Great Gatsby and "Little Women...
Second, Ilyinsky's discussion of so-called "Janus words" may draw from a similar discussion in the Slate article. Both articles discuss Janus words, and provide three different examples of them. While the examples are different in each column, their presentation is very similar...