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...past few months, the BBC has itself resembled a superannuated soap, the long-term future of the 85-year-old institution called into question as it lurches from embarrassing revelations about editorial lapses to high-level resignations, job cuts and threatened strikes. Management has apologized for such breaches of trust as falsifying the results of a public vote to name a cat on the children's show Blue Peter (producers rejected the winning entry "Cookie" in favor of "Socks") and showing a trailer for the documentary A Year with the Queen with scenes shown out of sequence to suggest (deceptively...
...There's one BBC interviewer so confident of skewering evasions that he seems almost languid as he moves in for the kill. Jeremy Paxman's usual quarry are obfuscating politicians, but his target on Oct. 17 was Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust. Lyons, Paxman's bosses' boss, had agreed to appear on the BBC's in-depth news program Newsnight to give his explanation for staff cuts and other measures the director general would announce the following day. These would include a paring back of the BBC's much-vaunted news-gathering operation. How, Paxman wondered, could such...
Hairless breeds never win the Westminster Dog Show. And they no longer win the dog-and-pony show that is a presidential election, no matter what surveys say about Giuliani as the Republican front runner. Forget the Roper polls. I trust the barber poles...
...evidence, is it still a crime? 9. Professor John Parker. Where did that guy go? And is he still single? 10. Free booze. Now a rarity on campus, you’ve got to know where it is. At all times. 11. Your boyfriend/girlfriend, who you absolutely, totally, completely trust. 12. The UC party funds. “Follow the money”–with GPS it’s just so easy! 13. That guy you’ve had your eye on since freshman year who only seems to pop up when you?...
Given the existence of these disclosures, putting more information about Harvard’s investments derived from the public disclosures on HMC’s website would improve the Harvard communities’ trust of HMC without diminishing its financial edge. Consequently, we hope it revamps the site again in a way that consolidates specific investment and structural information in a readable format. Doing so would create real transparency, not just a pretty Web site...