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Save the Oscars With Live Voting and Hindsight
Bloomberg View, February 22, 2012
Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony faces the real possibility of ratings humiliation. The Oscar telecast will almost certainly draw a smaller TV audience than the Feb. 12 Grammy Awards.
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Can You Pass the ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ Test?
Bloomberg View, February 08, 2012
Charles Murray knows that people who read fat books of social criticism aren’t normal. They weren’t normal when the books had titles like “The Affluent Society,” “The Hidden Persuaders” and “The Organization Man,” and they aren’t normal today.One way they aren’t normal is that they expect to do well on exams.
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Iron Lady Falls to the Anna Quindlen Doctrine
Bloomberg View, January 11, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia.
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How Art History Majors Power the U.S. Economy
Bloomberg View, January 04, 2012
There’s nothing like a bunch of unemployed recent college graduates to bring out the central planner in parent-aged pundits.
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U.S. Universities Feast on Federal Student Aid
Bloomberg View, December 07, 2011
The public is in a foul mood over increasing college costs and student debt burdens. Talk of a “higher education bubble” is common on the contrarian right, while the Occupy Wall Street crowd is calling for a strike in which in which ex-students refuse to pay off their loans.
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Amazon E-Library Is Publishing’s Profit Model
Bloomberg View, November 12, 2011
Amazon.com Inc. is at it again. To the consternation of much of the book industry, the online giant is again offering digital titles for less than major publishers think books are worth. And this time, the price is zero.
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Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban
Bloomberg View, October 09, 2011
When Amit Gupta told his friends a few weeks ago that he had acute leukemia and needed a bone- marrow transplant, the word spread quickly.
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Superheroes Rise From Camp to Art
Bloomberg View, October 05, 2011
The newest banner in the window of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh features a strikingly realistic portrait of Superman. Unfazed as bullets bounce from his chest, neck and forehead, the Man of Steel wears a calm, resolute expression, made all the more convincing by the creases and fine lines of early middle age.
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Harvard Pledge Values ‘Kindness’ Over Learning
Bloomberg View, September 14, 2011
When the members of the class of 2015 arrived at Harvard College this fall, they encountered a novel bit of moral education. Their dorm proctors -- the grad students who live with freshmen to provide guidance and enforce discipline -- invited each student to sign a pledge developed by the Freshman Dean’s Office.
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How Steve Jobs Made Business Cool Again
Bloomberg View, August 25, 2011
To understand the cultural significance of Steve Jobs, you have to go back in time: to before the iPad or iPhone or iTunes, before Apple Inc.’s comeback products made candy-colored plastics and iAnything cool, before Jobs got kicked out of Apple, even before the Macintosh hurled a sledgehammer at Big Brother.