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Only two days later, Britain's THORN EMI conglomerate said it will pay $337 million to take over the music-publishing interests of SBK Entertainment World, based in Los Angeles. The U.S. company owns more than 250,000 songs, among them classic MGM motion-picture melodies like Singin' in the Rain and Over the Rainbow, as well as tunes written by James Taylor, Luther Vandross, the late Marvin Gaye and many other pop singers...
...changed the face of television. Roots proved that TV dramas, once confined to neat two-hour blocks, could draw huge audiences when stretched into week-long programming "events." Not all the mini-series that followed Roots were hits, but a few -- Holocaust in 1978, Shogun in 1980, The Thorn Birds in 1983 -- have been among the most watched TV programs ever...
Eligible freshmen accept the program for several reasons. "About one third graduate in three years, several take a year off either to work or travel abroad, many opt to write a thesis intheir fourth year, and about 12 to 15 receivemasters degrees after four years," said Thorn...
Students who accept sophomore standing can withdraw from the program in the next month but are rarely able to regain the status, said Carol Thorn, a spokesman for the Office of Special Programs...
JACKSON could choose to be a true thorn in Dukakis' side. He could issue ultimatums behind which his constituency could rally. He could lay out a sensible case for his being placed on the ticket--one that goes beyond his supporters' current contention, that since he came in second he has earned the spot, as if history backed up such an argument. He could defiantly challenge the party to open up, to acknowledge itself as the party of the left, just as the Republicans admitted they were the party of the right by nominating Reagan...