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...they mailed small TV ratings booklets to households across the country and asked them to record everything they watched for a week. To keep the task of receiving and recording thousands of diaries from the sample households orderly, they started a "sweep," starting on the East Coast and moving West across the country. Now computers make the data gathering and recording a cinch, so Nielsen surveys each market continuously for the entire four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweeps Week | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...tome of realism—one that attempts to cram between its two covers either all the dramas of family life or an entire sordid cityscape.In practice, this drive toward realism prompts writers to turn to a set of stock cultural representations closely linked to historical portrayal by the west. And the issue hasn’t just got tweed-suited postcolonial theorists gnawing at their pencils. In the fifth installment of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures this Monday, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk waxed troubled before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre. The American writer, he said...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Occidental Tourist | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...team was taking one of its biggest rivals and, as a defender, Kucharczyk would have the opportunity to match up against West Babylon High School’s best player. But, when her opponent was held out with an injury, Gallagher noted her star player’s disappointment...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kucharczyk Welcomes Challenge of Two Teams | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...tradition and head over to Faneuil Hall to watch the “Howl-O-Ween” Pet Parade. Pets will be costumed in their very best ghoulish get-up, promising a devilish dog and fur-eaky feline festival.  10 a.m.-6 p.m, Saturday, October 31, West End between Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market Building...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...Initially a response to the death of a beloved leader that unfolded mostly in the poorer parts of west and north Delhi, the events of the days that followed became much more organized, spreading strategically across the city, including upper-class and diplomatic neighborhoods. Eyewitnesses have repeatedly told stories of the police looking on as rioters murdered and raped, having gotten access to voter records that allowed them to mark Sikh homes with large Xs, and large mobs being bused in to large Sikh settlements. "On Oct. 31, there was primarily looting and arson attacks," says Jaskaran Kaur, co-director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Waiting for Justice | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

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