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...studios hold on tightly to their product. Semel, who was brought in to run Yahoo! after 30 years in Hollywood, is determined to change that. In November he hired Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC Entertainment who greenlighted shows like Desperate Housewives and Lost and earlier helped develop The Sopranos for HBO, to head up a new media division in L.A. and spearhead the company's venture into Tinseltown. Next month the Silicon Valley--based Yahoo! will open its media headquarters in Santa Monica, a mere limo commute from Hollywood's major studios...
...would also not have been Diana, Queen of Hearts. It all boils down to providence. Augustine Kallon Hemmingen, Germany "Love actually," you declare. But who cares, actually? And on the cover? You should be embarrassed. Jennifer Jones Stellenbosch, South Africa High Stakes in North Korea North Korea wants to develop nuclear weapons only as a deterrent to the threatening nuclear superpower of the U.S. [Feb. 21]. President Bush included North Korea in his notorious "axis of evil," along with Iraq and Iran. He invaded Iraq and has now focused world attention on Iran. He said he loathes North Korean leader...
...patch of North London, the novel's real vitality lies in the relationship between twin sisters Georgia and Bessi. Evans has a sharp eye for the quotidian charms - the strawberry-scented beanbag chairs and baked-bean sandwiches - of the girls' childhood in "the wilderness of Neasden." School friends quickly develop a written classification system to tell the sisters apart, but the twins remain oddities; classmates can't even spell Bessi's name right: "Georgia has big ears, Bessie don't." But the twins' suburban idyll is sometimes disturbed by the fear that their parents might divorce. Nigerian mother Ida finds...
...Cleese began work on a Python stage show. But Terry Gilliam was too busy with his own films, and Michael Palin vetoed the idea. "Mike felt that we all look so much older now, and it would look a bit sad," says Terry Jones. Idle went off to develop Spamalot on his own. By the time it was finished several years later, the group had mellowed some. "There was a new generation who wanted to see more," says Palin. "So we relaxed the rules a bit and said, 'What the heck?'" Idle at least could be trusted to protect...
...develop and centralize its resources in the field of behavioral economics, the Economics Department, largely considered to be one of the best faculties in the country, is expanding its faculty in this field as its first step...