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...precedents tend to involve either topless women or dreary, behind-the-mike camera shots. "When beloved radio personalities make the jump to TV," says IRA GLASS, the beloved-by-the-bookish host of public radio's This American Life, "it's a nightmare." Yet after rejecting two offers from broadcast networks, Glass is finally attempting a televised version of his program for Showtime. Won over, he says, by the cable channel's yearlong courtship, Glass is two-thirds finished with a pilot presentation due in June. The trickiest task, he says, is translating the radio stories into a visual medium...
Perhaps the most significant change the UCRC has suggested is the direct election of candidates to each of the UC’s three committees. For years, UC critics have noted that students tend generally to favor service on the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) first, followed by the Campus Life Committee (CLC) and the Finance Committee. Under the old system, the House candidate garnering the highest percentage of the vote picked his or her first-choice committee, while the second and third-place winners were often placed on committees with missions they weren’t as passionate about...
...modesty belies a confident charm: Pasternack is a pale and lanky guy and exudes the kind of disaffected cool that tags him as a hipster. In conversation, however, he is warm and friendly, if a bit distracted. His eyes, like his words, tend to wander with restless attention...
...Stern brings in the young dudes, it will be up to Stewart to even the scales with women. Sirius appeals to guys because men tend to be early technology adopters and because Sirius has bulked up on pro sports, offering channels for NBA, NFL and NHL games (assuming that hockey returns), and starting in 2007, stock-car racing via NASCAR, which Karmazin lured from XM. Sirius signed Stewart for a bargain $30 million over four years, plus a share of ad sales. It's paid to her company, Martha Stewart Living OmniMedia, in return for a 24-hour women...
...strict retelling of the original script, but a synthesis of the old and new. “I believe that your first priority is to establish communication between a text and an audience,” Fox wrote in an email, adding, “Actually, I tend to believe that ‘period’ Shakespeare alienates an audience from the essential part of the play...