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...Naughty Kitchen kind to the new cable channel will be if she's actually on the screen. While nobody's saying whether she'll have a talk show, Oprah has confirmed she will "appear on and participate in" programs on OWN. Instead of taking their Oprah straight up for an hour a day, it seems viewers are going to get a taste of her everywhere. Ben Silverman, the former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and now CEO of new media firm Electus, is buying. "Her willingness to migrate to cable shows that content and brand equity travel with...
...worst recession in decades. Third quarter GDP growth came in at an annualized rate of 4.8%. But other statistics painted a more troubling picture. The price of goods and services slid by 2.6% in the third quarter, the biggest drop since 1958. Consumer prices have dropped for seven straight months. "The recent price falls are not right and worrisome," Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said at a Nov. 20 press conference. "This is one of the major policy issues right now." Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan was even more blunt. He stated flatly this week that the country...
...playing Monmouth, which went 16-1-1 in the regular season, will not make things any easier on the Crimson. The Muhawks won the Northeast Conference Tournament title and their fifth straight regular season championship this past year. They’ve been ranked in the national top-10 for seven consecutive weeks. And they feature one of the best defenses in the country, leading the nation in shutout percentage—they’ve held 70% of their opponents, including UConn yesterday, scoreless—and rank second in the country in goals against average (0.35 per game...
...Hasan's very presence at the facility struck some older and more experienced classmates as strange. "We were asking, 'Why is this guy in this program?' " a third officer says. "He was straight out of his residency, he didn't seem very qualified and he didn't seem very academically rigorous." The officer also claims that reports from colleagues at Walter Reed suggested that Hasan had "had problems in his residency with discipline and problems interacting with patients." (Read TIME's cover story about Hasan...
...Gist: Three straight decades of war have taken a devastating toll on Afghanistan, sinking the country deeper into political instability and chaos and earning it an unfortunate reputation as one of the most dangerous places in the world. Though several books and articles have been dedicating to analyzing the embattled country's troubled history, little has been written on the effect that these conflicts have had on the lives of ordinary Afghans. (See "Multimedia: The War in Afghanistan Up Close...