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...works, at least in sustaining itself and suppressing any challenges to its monopoly. Led for 37 years by Jack Valenti, the former Lyndon Johnson aide who maintained many friends in Washington, the MPAA is one of America's most effective lobbies. Consider this: With all the agitation from conservative Christian groups about the perilous state of popular culture, there have been few concrete attacks on the way the movie industry polices its content, and no consistent demand to hand the ratings job over to the federal government. The MPAA's success since the mid-'60s, when it established its ratings...
...EIWAs at 125 lbs., almost pulled off another championship victory this year. To reach the finals, he defeated No. 2 seed Mike Mormile of Cornell, 5-3, who had dealt Preston his only dual meet loss of the season. In the finals, however, he fell short to Matthew Valenti of Penn in double overtime.“I wrestled well for the most part,” Preston said. “I just made a mistake in the third period [of the finals].”With the score tied, 2-2, in regulation, the junior missed a chance...
...SHARE OUR STRENGTH 800-969-4767; strength.org Windows of Hope, started by New York City chef Tom Valenti immediately after 9/11, has teamed with the hunger-fighting group SOS to organize a national "dine out" on Sept. 27. Most of the funds will be used for immediate relief, with a portion devoted to helping storm-ravaged restaurants in the Gulf...
...ones. The movie industry is furious. "These are folks who hide behind a curtain of plausible deniability, like they don't know what's being traded on their networks," says Dan Glickman, a Clinton Cabinet member and former Democratic Congressman who took over the helm of the MPAA after Valenti retired...
...about to put them out of business. DVD sales, which grew 33% last year, and box-office receipts have never been stronger. So if technological breakthroughs were a boon for the movie industry in the past, why is the industry acting as if the sharing of movies online, as Valenti said a year ago, heralds the "undoing of society...