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This wasn't the only time Redstone took the lead in orchestrating a shift toward bigger risks on the content side of Viacom's media empire. At a meeting this year with executives at Viacom's Paramount Pictures, with Karmazin present, Redstone stunned his team with a commitment to bankroll more of the big-budget films that studio heads love but that Karmazin loved to avoid. The divide over how far to wade into expensive movies and risky programming was not gaping. Karmazin says he was eager, for example, to launch the gay network. But things weren't moving fast...
...Administration contend he has more credibility as a diplomat now that he has shown a willingness to use force to back his principles. "The reason diplomacy will be effective in a second term is because of the use of the military," says a senior Administration official. Doubters suspect the shift is aimed at coaxing other nations to help rescue his failing Iraq policy--and to present a less warlike face to voters. Bush campaign advisers concede as much. "It may help overseas, yes," says a top Bush campaign adviser, "but if nothing else, it gives us ammunition to push back...
...upshot of this shift is that the University has a much harder time recruiting top faculty and students in the life sciences, faculty...
Kirby said new policies were partly behind the shift...
Another reason for the formation shift was the necessity of adjusting to the loss of forwards Joey Yenne ’03 and Beth Totman ’03, who together accounted for 11 of Harvard’s 27 goals last season. Much of this void was filled by Moran, who shifted to forward and scored 10 times after recording just two goals last season...