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...parties can't come closer together. The deal-breaker in the negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP is new media content. Those pithy webisodes of The Office and Battlestar Galactica? Someone wrote them, and wants to get paid when you play them on your iPod. In order to avoid a strike, said WGA West President Patric M. Verrone in a statement, "What we must have is a contract that gives us the ability to keep up with the financial success of this ever-expanding global industry." AMPTP says new media is still too new, and revenue is too unpredictable...
...great geneticist slunk back to the U.S. on Friday - his sold-out U.K. tour for his new book called Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science canceled after the apparently racist remarks he made to Britain's Sunday Times Magazine last weekend - it's clear that Watson's latest provocation is not one he'll shrug off lightly. Indeed, Watson, 79, says he is "mortified" by the imbroglio, and apologizes "unreservedly" for the offending comments, in which he suggested black people are not as smart as whites: he told the Sunday Times' Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe that...
...presidential primaries approach, those puzzled about politics may no longer have an excuse to avoid the polls. A blog, VoteGopher.com, founded by a Harvard student aims to provide “real information for real people” and to encourage young Americans to participate in the democratic process. Launched on Sunday, the site has been tipped for success by 2004 election bloggers. “We want to encourage all people, especially Americans under 30, to learn about the issues, to get involved in the election, and to ultimately vote,” said the site?...
...Also important, as he said in the preface for the collection, was a hope that short stories be relocated from the “bottom shelf” in bookstores, where most have been relegated in recent years. This way, he said, he would be able to avoid dropping to his knees and “crawling with my ass in the air” to find the latest copy of a short-story magazine like “Tin House” or “Zoetrope: All-Story.” “People who are used...
...Governments will be desperate to avoid making a similar mistake," says Daniel Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies. That's why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists that the treaty be ratified by the British Parliament, not a popular referendum. Opinion polls show that E.U.'s most euro-sceptic nation would reject the treaty as convincingly as French and Dutch voters...