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...market. He called for more tax incentives for hybrid cars, fewer environmental hurdles for refinery builders, drilling wells in the Arctic and congressional authority to raise mileage requirements on cars. Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who earlier in the week had advised voters to drive slower and get a tune-up, was fronting a Republican proposal to send a $100 rebate to most taxpayers--which they could return to the oil companies next time they filled...
While Newbold may have heard The Who, he clearly did not listen to the band. If he had, he would have been in tune with the thousands who protested before the war. And he would have noted the voices that tried to break through the wall of sound erected by the Republican Party. If the good general wants to say he was fooled again, he has certainly earned the right. But there were many here among us who were not fooled again...
...grain of corporate society, to trust your instinct and passion when the powers of the market demand otherwise. Opal Mehta, too, can tell us about parental pressure (whether or not she could do it in her own words remains to be seen). Nobody I know at Harvard can completely tune out the temptations of cash or the security and immunity that a Harvard education seems to guarantee now and in the future. If our generation wasn’t set on insta-fame, we wouldn’t write insta-novels. We would be confident in our own writing: confident...
...best-delivered scene of the show, two elderly sisters (Zoe K. Kawaller ’09 and Anna C. Smith ’09) brought their “infectious attitudes” and a useless family painting to be appraised on the show, delivering the catchy tune, “Masterpiece.” Later, Kawaller and Smith opened the second act as foxy cabaret singers, offering refreshing vocal precision.The attractive set design (Kathleen E. Breeden ’09 and Sally H. Rinehart ’09) included Antiques Roadshow banners, a fancy living room, and a conventionally...
...technology, the market might initially be shocked before the business models adapt to find the solutions we need to deal with the changes," says Harrington. Indeed, Krikorian hopes that rights owners and broadcasters will soon strike deals with Sling Media that increase the chance that their audience will both tune in and interact. "There's been lots of saber rattling," says Krikorian. "But when you completely dive into this, you realize we're helping the industry.'' If nothing else, Sling has media titans in its corner. Its financial backers include moguls John Malone and Charlie Ergen, who respectively run Liberty...