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...like a crushing stampede, with almost daily pronouncements and a flurry of press releases. CBS boasts it broke new ground by selling Survivor on its website; NBC Sports trumpets that it will make $6 million from its online Olympics coverage (take that, Simon Cowell!); Disney-ABC says it will stream many of its series for free; Fox boss Rupert Murdoch remarks that his Internet services will generate $350 million in revenues this year...
...action. "This fight will get very real very quickly, and there'll be a court case within six months over this," predicts Rafat Ali, owner of the industry-news site paidContent.org One struggle brewing pits CBS against its affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., WRAL, which wants to stream prime-time shows live, then sell downloads on its own website, limiting access geographically to Raleigh viewers. Production companies and studios that provide shows to networks pose another potentially thorny family feud. Networks haven't figured out yet how to split the pie, which is why the Big Four have so far placed...
...Olympics and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids - each seemingly larger than the last - has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted ?40 million ($70 million) or even more - the precise figure has not been revealed - will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It's certainly got the goods: a daring robbery, a terrified family...
...Olympics, and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids--each seemingly larger than the last--has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted 40 million ($70 million in U.S. currency) or even more--the precise figure has not been revealed--will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It has certainly got the goods: a daring...
...captivated with it. I was intrigued by improvisation, yet nothing in my classical training had given me any idea whether I could do that.” Monson pursued jazz trumpet at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied in a unique program, Third Stream, which emphasized learning music by ear. Two particular courses influenced her deeply: one on North Indian classical music with sitarist Peter Row, and another on African music and ethnomusicology. Outside the classroom, Monson was introduced to other genres of music, and played everything from Klezmer to salsa. After a few years, Monson returned...