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Would artists buy this kind of shift? Jon Webster, chief executive of the London-based Music Managers Forum, is not so sure. Far from spoiling musicians, he says, "most personal advances are to keep people alive." Squeezing out an album is an unpredictable affair, and regular pay checks might strike some artists as an unwelcome reminder to hurry up. "Creators rarely want to be sitting here watching the clock," Webster says. "The creative process doesn't work like that...
...Krahel: This University will try and squelch dissent. As somebody who was involved in the hunger strike, I know. They tried to kick us out of Harvard for doing the hunger strike. When it comes down to it, the administration and faculty in those times [during the Vietnam War] were vehemently opposed, and explicitly so, to anti-war activism. This created an opposition. On a lot of campuses, police, things like that were brought in. This was one of them. And they beat students. Students that were otherwise depoliticized saw that. That exploded campuses across the nation, including ours. Students...
...Feldman said, he was constantly forced to strike a balance between his duties as a government employee and as an academic, between what seemed best for Iraqis and what his superiors wanted to hear...
...coordinating line changes, forced the penalty kill to defend against a two-man deficit just minutes after Quinnipiac had opened the second period with its third power-play goal of the night, making the score 4-2.The ensuing 5-on-3 would end all hopes for Harvard to stay within striking distance.“That whole sequence, we take a needless penalty in the offensive zone on a play that’s a non-factor, we take a too many men on the ice, and we end up 5-on-3,” Donato said...
...Contemporary Tibetan Studies at Columbia University. Barnett and others say that paramilitary police blocked at least three attempts by monks from each of the three monasteries to enter the capital. Later the monasteries were surrounded by armed police. Some monks responded in one monastery by reportedly going on hunger strike while there were reports of attempted suicides at another...