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...shareholders are certainly scratching their heads. "Investors are concerned about James' relative lack of experience and with the family connection," says David Cumming, head of U.K. Equities for Edinburgh-based Standard Life Investments, a significant shareholder in BSkyB. Part of the concern is that bringing in Murdoch blood could threaten BSkyB's relative independence within News Corp. Under James, decisions about stock dividends, accounting procedures, acquisitions and expansion could be driven from New York City and Los Angeles, the two cities that the Australian-born Murdoch Sr. calls home these days, instead of from London, where the local market expertise...
...outposts in Kosovo, CNN and BBC regaled in airing errant U.S. bombs blowing trains off their tracks and careening into downtown Belgrade. And only after the broadcast of a certain amount of death and destruction against the people of Sarajevo was it acceptable for America and NATO to threaten a military barrage of their very...
That style and approach have provided a depth that should prepare the team should an unforeseen injury threaten to derail the Crimson drive for an Ivy title...
...social norms marketing one of the most popular alcohol prevention programs on college campuses today? It is appealing in part because of its positive, non-threatening approach. College administrators like it because the main message is that drinking is not as big a problem on campus as people think. It does not threaten students with scare tactics or enforcement penalties, and it disregards the sensitive drinking age issue. Nor does it threaten alcohol providers with fines or closures for serving minors or intoxicated customers, which may explain why the alcohol industry has provided financial support for social norms programs...
...TIME: But doesn't democracy threaten the Saudi system...