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...making TV for the people, not for the pointy-heads--and as The Sopranos demonstrates, it is a load of crap. The show's highest-rated episode drew an audience of more than 11 million (not counting viewers of its repeat episodes), though only a third of American TVs (about 38 million) even have HBO. Not only will ordinary folks watch a show that demands constant attention, resists easy closure, relies on subtext and is rich with metaphor--they will pay near usurious subscription fees for it. In one new episode, Tony sees squirrels eating the feed he left...
...place to sit and sip an ice-cold brew under the stars. From there it's a quick cab ride to the sleek new Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Shibuya, one of the city's shopping and restaurant hubs. The hotel features 21st century touches (web-enabled flat-screen TVs) and stunning views as far as Mount Fuji. Did I mention the marble baths...
...foreign airports, she oversaw construction of a larger, fully staffed room at the airline's hub in Seattle-Tacoma, Wash., in which unaccompanied minors can safely wait for their connecting flight. Schneider also helped improve the process for tracking kids on connecting flights and got TVs and vcrs for the waiting rooms. "Those rooms are improvements that matter not just to our customers," she says, "but are also important to our employees"--who suggested the special waiting areas. "It's part of trying to encourage new ideas...
...captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd's attorneys say. The studios' complaint against open captioning has been that it will annoy hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th Century Fox and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner, declined to comment...
...rest of the day at Harvard was marked by an unusual, eerie quiet. Students crowded silently before TVs in dining halls and rooms, venturing outside only to flinch whenever planes flew overhead...