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...hardly qualified to dash off authoritative articles on the theological bona fides of African critters. But one recent evening, I made $15 for writing tips on hard-disc data recovery, another $15 for telling people how to repair burnt carpet and $7.50 for teasing out the answer to that most pressing of questions: Is a giraffe sacred...
...Morgan Freeman every time Precious wins an award?) and politics (Fox News paranoiac Glenn Beck tweeted that Avatar vs. The Hurt Locker was "an anti US/human movie against an anti US/Troops movie"). TV with Twitter is like an instant DVD commentary. (See pictures of Oscar fashion from the red carpet...
...radiator problems in 1998, the company denied any production defects despite a recall for this problem several years earlier. Later, everyone in the industry acknowledged it to be an inherent problem in that model. I have not bought another Toyota car since. Any organization that sweeps problems under the carpet is bound to pay the price in due course. I am not surprised to read about the current massive recall by Toyota. A. Manoharan Sydney...
...carpet showdown was not the first battle over these fees, and it won't be the last. Stung by the recession and the general - and apparently permanent - ebb of advertising dollars away from network TV, media companies are searching the ground for every revenue scrap they can find. And their expensive-to-make network programming is a potentially juicy source. Whereas they used to pipe that content to cable companies for little or no cost, they now expect to be paid...
...year's highest-rated programs. The negotations, which had been vigorous, became frantic. Finally, "we found something that was in line with what we pay other programmers," says Charles Schueler, Cablevision EVP. Minutes after the show started, Bob Iger reportedly gave his OK from the red carpet, just in time for Penélope Cruz to glide onto the screens of Cablevision customers in the New York City area to present the award for Best Supporting Actor. Reports of the agreed-upon price between ABC and Cablevision varied widely but were not above 60 cents. In other words, the whole...