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...ripple raced across the cultural puddle that is daytime television drama this week as word emerged from the writer’s offices at ABC’s long-running tele-saga All My Children that the show would play host to a kiss between two female lovers on April 22. This would mark the first time that two members of the very same sex swapped spit in the history of the afternoon timeslot, long considered a haven for the most conservative television viewers. One of the members of this pioneering daytime duo is Harvard’s own Eden...
...sincere tips on underage smoking and illegal parking, exactly zero crimes have been solved thanks to civilian sleuths. Not to say camera phones haven't kept the authorities busy: police have received a slew of complaints of digital skirt peeping and sundry reports of other, less felonious forms of tele-mischief such as distributing embarrassing photos of classmates over the Web. It seems that Japan's perverts and bullies have a faster high-tech learning curve than do its do-gooders...
...This is not science. It's a policy goal," says Eli Noam, director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information in New York City. "It's pretty clear that, given the head start of the Bells, it's difficult for someone to come in without a little regulatory weighting of the scales. But you don't want to prolong it. It puts regulators in the driver's seat...
...passes slowly in India, but not for Sunil Mittal. Four years ago, the 45-year-old entrepreneur was a bit player in the Indian telecommunications market, the owner of cellular franchises in Delhi and the small neighboring state of Himachal Pradesh. Total customer base: 116,000. Today, his Bharti Tele-Ventures is the largest mobile phone company on the subcontinent. Customer base: 2.5 million. He recently wrapped up a $1 billion expansion that quadrupled the size of his network in less than a year. Mittal even completed an acquisition of a competitor?from initial offer to signed contract...
...Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when negotiating his contract, "I'm rich in an embarrassing...