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Internet experts say that almost everybody who has ever tried charging for content has failed. Murdoch is out of touch, they suggest. Michael Wolff, whose book on Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, came out in December, says he was shocked to learn that Murdoch didn't have an e-mail address, could barely use his cell phone and had not been on the Internet unaided. "Technology," writes Wolff, "has always been regarded as one of those things, like fancy hotels, or long-form writing, that are not part of [News Corp.'s] culture...
...cautionary tale' doesn't even touch what this is," says Brownell of the Schuler crash. "This is a worst-case scenario for what happens when people, mothers and fathers, have alcohol abuse and addiction issues that go untreated ... and unrecognized by loved ones. The amazing thing is that more cases like this don't happen every day." (See TIME's alcohol abuse covers...
...wife worrying about their children coming home in the dark. "My wife has all the good ideas," says Grote, who runs an advertising agency. "I discussed the problem with her and we thought it must be possible to have the lights available on demand." Grote got in touch with the local utility company Lemgo and noodled a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? A few months later, Lemgo had developed a special modem and software and, together with Grote, launched Dial4Light - billed as the first project of its kind in Europe...
...increasingly open about both its ambitions and its concerns over U.S. economic policy, given its position as Washington's largest foreign creditor. Beijing never signed on to what became known in the late 1990s as the Washington Consensus on global economic policy, which called for free trade, privatization, light-touch regulation, prudent fiscal policies and - at least as many interpreted the consensus - free capital flows. The U.S. Treasury, in the wake of the credit meltdown, has put forward a plan to enhance regulation of its own capital markets, but that is unlikely to prevent Beijing from continuing to push...
Scarlet, a Russian "lit-ra-tuah" concentrator and former TF who now claims to be a "consultant," said she was recruited to add a touch of "playfulness" to the show by supervising producer Liz Alderman '96, a friend of a friend. The three organizations that generally provide visitors with tours of Harvard—the Admissions Office, the Crimson Key society, and Harvard Unofficial Tours—didn’t recommend or even know about Marquette. Since the prepsters' encounter with Scarlet seems to take place in the science center triangle, which is technically Cambridge property, Bravo...