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...Thompson's new plans for the BBC, which he calls Creative Future, reduce staffing and budgets but leave the range of activities pretty much intact. There's a constant tension between the BBC's aim of making what Byford calls "brilliant, outstanding, special, stand-out content that raises the bar of broadcasting" and the Corporation's need to justify its existence by attracting mass audiences, which tend to eschew high culture and serious factual programming. Populism has the upper hand. "If you look at the history of the BBC, it is the history of a very slow retreat from...
...motorbike," says Peter Priscott, a member of the British group, referring to the disproportionate number of members who have lost arms in cycle wrecks. Lusk greets buddies with "high stumps" all over the course. At his first society tournament in Scotland, David Bailey--another motorcycle casualty--walked into a bar with an ax. Confused members wondered what the hell the new guy was doing. He then unbuttoned his collared shirt to reveal a T shirt that read RECRUITING OFFICER--SOCIETY OF ONE-ARMED GOLFERS...
Continue down Zabkowska and you'll encounter the finest example of a former factory turned into an arts center at Fabryka Trzciny, 14 Otwocka Street, tel: (48 22) 619 17 05, www.fabrykatrzciny.pl. The place used to manufacture marmalade and shoes; now it houses an elegant bar and a fine restaurant - with outside seating in good weather - featuring such classic Polish fare as stuffed cabbage, and pierogi filled with sweet cottage cheese. A meal like that is one great way to crown a day sampling Praga's artful...
Chocolate is a legendary aphrodisiac, but can it make you love a class? External factors, even something as small as a candy bar, can influence student responses on course evaluations, according to a study by two social psychologists. Students in one discussion section were offered chocolate before filling out teaching evaluations, while those in another section completed the evaluations without the candy. Of the 98 students in three lecture classes, those offered chocolate gave responses that were on average approximately 4 percent more positive, even though the sections were taught by the same teaching assistant. “Based...
...left with a teetering, impotent government, whose Prime Minister has suffered a massive international embarrassment. Congress appears to lack the political strength to push forward the economic liberalization measures that many in India's business community and in the West had expected. "By backing down after raising the bar so high," the Times of India editorial warned, "the government has signaled, in effect, that it is weak and open to blackmail on any issue by any pressure group in parliament. With one-and-a-half years remaining for polls, and the Left demonstrating it holds the whip hand in government...