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...Iger is the antithesis of a brash showman. At last January's Consumer Electronics Show, a high-tech hype-fest in Las Vegas, another CEO peddled a two-wheeler onstage to tout his company's new bicycle-powered cell-phone charger. The understated Iger, wearing spectacles, a dark suit and white shirt, talked about strategy and happily let Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer, ESPN commentators and Lost cast members take the lead in unveiling Disney's multimedia-entertainment fare...
...also the ribald companionship of the sitcom writing room, a basically male preserve where the scribes often engage in sexually explicit jokes about the show's cast, as an assistant copies it all down. (In 1999 one such assistant, Amaani Lyle of the Friends staff, brought a sexual discrimination suit against the writers for burning her ears with their X-rated gags.) Apatow is a veteran of these rooms, from his own shows Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and some of that rowdy zazz gets into his movies...
...should react firmly when Russia tries to bully its neighbors. America should insist that Russia ratify the European Energy Charter to dispel fears of energy blackmail. The U.S. should continue to patiently draw Ukraine into the West so that Russia will have to follow suit or risk becoming isolated between the Euro-Atlantic community and a powerful China. And, above all, the U.S. should terminate its war in Iraq, which is so damaging to America's ability to conduct an intelligent and comprehensive foreign policy...
...Google’s initiative to digitize books has not come without controversy, however: the Authors Guild and five publishing companies sued Google in 2005 for its search program, which allows users to search for keywords within copyrighted, as well as out-of-copyright, works. The suit is ongoing...
...Super Bowl Sunday in early February, there was little Drew Gilpin Faust could do to lose. With her husband by her side and her mutt Clio on a leash, the business-suit-clad Faust strolled down Brattle Street, the historic Victorian way to the west of Harvard Yard. Outside the Garage complex on John F. Kennedy Street, she handed the leash to her husband and hopped into a waiting car headed for downtown Boston. There she would face and finally win over the nine-member group of lawyers, academics, and businessmen hunting for Harvard’s next president...