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...channel is just the start for MTV. The launch will swell its reach to 36 million households that get MTV Arabia via satellite, up from 200,000 who now get MTV on pay TV, and MTV will earn an estimated $10 million annually for 10 years in licensing fees from AMG. MTV also has deals with AMG and its parent, TECOM Investments, both controlled by the ruler of Dubai, to launch an Arabic version of Nickelodeon kids' channel next year. A Comedy Central channel, film co-production deals with Paramount (a unit of MTV's parent, Viacom) and a Nickelodeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MTV's Arab Prizefight | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...able to fund this project in perpetuity, doing so is unfeasible for several reasons. First, the Times will only pay its half of the cost for a limited time, and come 2008 it is raising the cost of its educational subscriptions by five cents. Consequently, the price will swell well beyond what the UC could afford without cutting significantly into the portion of its budget devoted to student groups. If the program is to be viable in the long term, then, it must be funded by the administration. This would bring Harvard in line with many of its peers...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Give Us the Times | 10/31/2007 | See Source »

That's pretty much the way it goes with this movie. It's a faux epic - swell costumes, historically authentic settings, a certain amount of bustle and skulking, but very little dramatically gripping activity. One has hopes, occasionally, for Geoffrey Rush's Walsingham, Elizabeth's supremely adept spymaster (and a historical character one would like to know more about), but he remains a shadowy figure. One would like, as well, to see Samantha Morton's Mary as a tragic, if misguided, figure. But she manages no more than a certain noble smugness when, at last, her head is placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth's Lusterless Golden Age | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

producing a condition known as hyponatremia. The result: excess fluid is sucked from the bloodstream into cells--including brain cells--making them swell. Pressure grows inside the skull, and that can lead to permanent damage, even death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Too Much H2O | 10/9/2007 | See Source »

...house, where they prayed en masse. The veteran democracy advocate came to her gate to watch the rare display of dissent. Since then, however, the road to the resistance leader's home has been blocked by soldiers. But if the protests in Burma continue to swell, riot police may not be able to hold back the crowds any longer. If so, the world can only hope that the monks' burgundy robes will not be stained further by the color of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma Stands Up to the Generals | 9/25/2007 | See Source »

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