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DIED. LENNART MERI, 76, witty, charismatic first President of independent Estonia after its 1991 split from the Soviet Union; in Tallinn. A survivor of a Soviet labor camp, he pushed free-market policies and established close ties with the U.S. during his two terms as President...
Since then, the networks' arrival on the digital frontier has become less of a carefully strategized business plan and more 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...
Doing other things occasionally forces people to miss a key episode of a favorite show that has a narrative arc. Need to know who was booted off Survivor? Doze through a part of Lost when a plot twist was revealed? That's how networks are hoping to cash in on downloads and video on demand while helping consumers catch up. "Unless you're one of the 10 million households who have devices like TiVo, the only other catch-up mechanism so far has been buying full seasons of a show on DVD," says AOL's Flannigan...
...deadline for freshmen to submit blocking groups to the housing lottery draws ever closer, and interactions within groups of friends start to more and more resemble an episode of Survivor, I find myself reflecting on my own experience with blocking last year. For many in the class of 2009, it’s become increasingly obvious that the trouble we upperclassmen warned of—about forming blocking groups—has not been so greatly exaggerated as they thought. The unnatural requirement of selecting your seven “best” friends out of a group that...
Mary Luce is an average-looking woman and a cancer survivor. Volunteering as a telephone operator for a suicide-prevention line, she is thrust into the world of vampires after a chance encounter with a scrawny mute runaway named John Matthew...