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They also aren't only baseball fans. Indeed, Schwartz says, variety has been essential to the network's growth, fueled by securing broadcast rights of U.S. sports leagues with varying appeal across markets. Although the National Football League pulled the plug on its European operation, the popularity of the NFL in Germany, he says, made getting broadcast rights essential. Meanwhile, National Basketball Association-crazy nations like France, Spain and Serbia have an appetite for NCAA hoops--especially when locals like France's Joakim Noah become stars of the U.S. college scene. How do you say March Madness in Serbo-Croatian...
Does this mean that all negotiations with him are off? Are you pulling the plug? We are not pulling any plug; he is the one that stopped negotiating once I returned to the country. He calls me up to condole, and then after that I heard that his people were going to come and visit me to talk about the second phase, which was the implementation of the fair election proposal followed by the balance of power between the presidency and the parliament. But they never came. They kept saying they would come, but they never did. They never showed...
...Boston-New York ticket costs $15 on greyhound.com and luckystarbus.com. But for some students, the free WiFi offered on some Vamoose buses may prove to be another key selling point—even though the company’s Web site cautions that not all its buses have plug-in power outlets. “With wireless, traveling would be so much more efficient, knowing I’ll have a seat and can spend the 4 hour ride productively,” said Anesha P. Grant ’08, a Brooklyn native and regular Greyhound passenger. Representatives...
...study conducted in 2005 by the U.S. Council on Graduate Medical Education indicated that the nation faces a deficit of around 85,000 physicians, or roughly 10 percent of the workforce, by 2020. In 2006, the AAMC recommended a 30 percent increase in medical school enrollment by 2015 to plug the gap and 77 percent of medical schools have increased their class size in the past five years. But medical schools at Harvard and other Ivy League universities are keeping their class sizes steady, saying that any changes they make would be insufficient in addressing the problem. Harvard?...
...first week of November. Sebastian noted that readers and students in general should be ready for “a lot of publicity” leading up to its premiere. "One of the coolest new features, that I’m just so excited about I have to plug, is a fashion blog sort of like the Sartorialist Blog. Basically, it will consist of four different photographers for “Freeze” going around campus taking pictures of students wearing fabulous outfits, and then we’ll post the pictures and comment on them. It?...