Word: sinclair
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...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...Despite the denials by a spokeswoman for the show, the action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the U.S. in Iraq." SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP, explaining why the company pulled from its eight ABC-TV stations an edition of Nightline in which anchor Ted Koppel read aloud the names of all the U.S. service members killed in action in Iraq...
...tone. The seven men and one woman huddled around a marble-topped table on a stormy night settled on a question inspired by the writer Ayn Rand. "Can you objectively infer an ethical principle?" asks Al Ostroff, 76, an artist and writer. "Kant would emphatically say yes," replies Evan Sinclair, 53, who works in marketing. "Plato would think differently," counters Larry Hui, 43, an attorney...
Trinidad native Grace K. Sinclair ’07 was mightily impressed by the cultural sensitivity shown by the Fly Club’s annual Calypso garden party last week. As a social event, Sinclair gave the party average marks, but as a celebration of West Indian culture, she had only praise: “All those pink seersucker shorts and bony white legs made me feel like I was in a real British colony—it was a really nice touch...
...Sinclair’s primary role on campus was as a co-host for “Hillbilly at Harvard.” Sinclair feted his country friends each year at an annual country Christmas party, when friends and family along with musicians would come to the studio and play hillbilly music, Lewandoski said...