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...Star Trek was never, and hopefully never will be, my vision of the future," says Berman, 48, a former documentary filmmaker and children's TV producer. "It's Gene Roddenberry's vision that I agreed to uphold." The job is trickier than it might seem. Berman, a vice president at Paramount when Roddenberry tapped him as the producer of The Next Generation, has had to sail his enterprise between the Scylla of Roddenberry's own "prime directive" -- a stricture against any conflict among members of Starfleet -- and the Charybdis of mass-market appeal...
...winning football games. Why, their ex-coach went on to lead the San Francisco 49ers, who haven't had a Rhodes Scholar since sports was dropped from the selection criteria! Only teams with records reeking of futility, such as the University of Chicago's Maroons, can claim to uphold the tradition of the nation's finest institutions of higher learning. No matter how much it pains us, we at Harvard must learn to see excellence in mediocrity...
...year later, just 20 days after the warranty expired, Tehranian's cable died again. "They refused to uphold the warranty and charged me $118.81 for the cable," he fumed...
...fault Harvard for improving itself," Guttierrez says of the new center, "but you will have to continue to push Harvard to uphold its commitment to academic excellence. I don't think [the center] would be a complete institute [without studies of Latinos...
...Haitian army commander until Aristide names a replacement -- had led a coup against Aristide. This morning the reinstalled President underscored his plea by having Duperval help him raise Haiti's flag at the National Palace. Also today, U.S. forces reported the third suicide by an American soldier during Operation Uphold Democracy, this one apparently the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Port-au-Prince military airfield...