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...further medical technology develops there’ll be further discussion about removing exemptions; I am hopeful they can be removed soon, and I don’t think we should feel content until they are,” says Rosenberg, who says the battle is not over...
...going to win? "My expectation is that dollars will follow audience," says UBS media analyst Michael C. Morris. "Content providers can say, 'You're going to pay me, or I'm pulling my signal.' It's basic leverage." Since cable providers operate at margins of about 40%, they can probably afford it. Indeed, Morris thinks a price war is in the offing, which would be good for consumers. "They may decide that a 35% margin is worth the trade-off for a better audience share," he says. Morris believes that the collateral damage in this battle will be the smaller...
...close friend. He writes, “I want this to be... a little path / For Ari... That’s why I speak / In a voice so soft.” The familiar tone, or the “voice so soft,” supports the content of the collection...
...form, along with the content, renders the book a single, prolonged conversation. At first glance, “Mean Free Path” appears to be a collection of short, untitled poems. But here, the absence of titles is significant; the obscured distinction between poems is strengthened by Lerner’s intentional thematic repetition. That is, thoughts that were mentioned at the beginning of the book are repeated throughout the book over and over again—often in the same exact words; somewhat as if Lerner were attempting a modernized sestina...
...times, however, Lerner seems to be too preoccupied with the notion of the synthesis of form and content. One of the most frequent subjects of the collection is its own form. “Do not hesitate / To cut the most beautiful line in the name / Of form,” Lerner writes. Not only do these recurrent comments on the poetic form become redundant, but they also subtract attention from other sentiments expressed in the collection...