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...AFTRA, the union representing performers) are free to perform on their shows, but not to write material for themselves. Of course, the question of whether a wisecrack that Conan or Dave thinks up in advance should be regarded as written material or an ad-lib could be the subject of unending philosophical debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Hosts Return? | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...partly due to the fact that they are the product of more than one brain. Indeed, Adventures belongs to an ancient Persian canon of oral literature known as the dastan, which includes popular stories generated, modified and passed down by village elders and royal poets alike. Dastan fables were subject to endless revision, shimmering and shifting depending on who was telling them and who was listening. When a few unnamed storytellers recited their dastan of Amir Hamza to an Indian publisher in 1883, the transcription yielded 46 volumes, each some 1,500 pages in length...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neglected Epic | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...make up about 90% of Saudi Arabia's light crude) now pump oil from water-injection wells--essentially the low-hanging fruit. Once that ends, oil production in those key fields will decline, and the declines could be steep. The two other giant fields producing lesser-quality oil are subject to this same risk. Quantifying the timing and the magnitude of the pending drop is impossible based on the skimpy data Saudi Arabia now discloses. But the risk is real, and the drop could happen soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Real Oil Shock | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

College administrators notified HoCos that they will be subject to Connecticut drinking laws. But committee members are on their own to find out what those laws are, Rosenblum said...

Author: By Aditi Banga and Victoria B. Kabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Houses Prep For Tailgate Revelry | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...fracas is a precarious truce with administrators in which, if anything, the UC has less financial autonomy than before. Technically, according to its founding charter passed by the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) in 1982, the UC should be allowed to exercise complete independence in spending its money, subject only...

Author: By Clay A. Dumas | Title: Once More Into the Breach… | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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