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...Helping CCTV International may give News Corp. the upper hand over other foreign TV programmers who want a piece of China's market. "Rupert [Murdoch] is medium-term savvy and long-term wise," says an official with another international media company. Placing a consultant inside CCTV headquarters in Beijing "further entwines News Corp. and CCTV." And Murdoch's man Terenzio slipped in without so much as a hail from the soldier at the gate...
...getting one and a half percent and [Summers] is getting 32 percent increases? Here they are telling us ‘we’re broke, we have no money’ but there was plenty of money to go around for the University’s upper management. I really think that that’s what turned the tide...
...from Argentina through Latin America on an old Norton 500 motorbike in 1952. The film was meant to show the burgeoning social awareness of the two men, one of whom became Che the guerrilla, the other a doctor in Havana. But all it proved was that a couple of upper-middle-class boys, who were too stubborn to wire their parents for money, met a lot of downtrodden but good-looking women...
...line—during the U.S. National tournament last month—the Harvard wrestling team’s assistant coach Jared Frayer dominated Eric Larkin, winning two matches, including one by a pin. But during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials on Saturday, it was Larkin who got the upper edge, beating Frayer in the semifinals of the challenge bracket to end Frayer’s hopes of making the Olympic team...
...route between luxury hotel and garbage dump has traditionally been one-way. Yet this is set to change, with an innovative project in Cambodia granting street kids a chance to work in the upper echelons of the hospitality industry. Shinta Mani, tel: (855) 63 761 998, is a crisply designed, 18-room, $130-per-night boutique hotel, which opened last year in Siem Reap, 6 km from Angkor Wat. But it also doubles as a vocational training institute, and its first classes, for some 16 youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging...