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...three producers hope to create a DVD for the Class of 2005, continuing a two-year tradition. They also plan to expand on-campus coverage to a team of two or three on-campus managers...
...Council's composition. The first would expand the permanent membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members the right to veto resolutions--or the influence that it bestows. Such power would rest only with the original five...
...these two legends found by committing themselves to old-fashioned, long-forgotten things—like, say, personality and good songwriting—will inspire record labels to demand higher artistic standards in their other acts. And lest we forget, 2004 also had lots of great rap albums. Madvillain, the brainchild of emcee MF Doom and producer Madlib, broke out of the underground with a relentlessly unique Lo-Fi collaboration. The absurdly gifted young producer Kanye West picked up the microphone and silenced his doubters, proving himself a witty and charming new voice. Eminem returned from a two-year break...
...Harvard raised some eyebrows by paying $1 million to one of its fund managers. Through the ’90s, those pay numbers drifted up and up, to the point where Harvard paid its fund managers colossal bonuses (over $100 million for the two-year period ending in mid-2002) even when the value of the endowment declined. These bonuses have been based on a committee-contrived formula, never publicly disclosed, that pays bonuses based on performance “benchmarks” tied to market indices, not actual gains in value. One financial consultant at McGill University wrote...
...research centers and spearheaded by Michel Parent, program director for research and development at France's INRIA, an automation and robotic research center. As you might imagine, Parent is a car buff who enjoys renovating vintage automobiles, such as the 1955 MG TF 1500 he refurbished while on a two-year assignment at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We are not looking to eliminate cars, just reinvent them," Parent declares...