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  • Board approves News Corp split into two entities Board approves News Corp split into two entities

    WASHINGTON - Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation Friday announced the planned separation of the $76-billion conglomerate into two distinct publicly traded companies, with one to be renamed 21st Century Fox and the publishing firm to retain the News Corp brand. The split has been formally approved by the Board of Directors. The Company announced appointments to the Boards of Directors of both ...

  • Expert US Foreign Policy in Retreat

    A former senior advisor to the late Richard Holbrooke, who served as U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, says when it comes to foreign policy, the U.S. is in "retreat." Vali Nasr, who is now dean of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), said the Obama administration has concluded that the best way forward for the United States is to do ...

  • Nawaz Sharifs govt. faces urgent calls to address violence against journalists

    The new government of Pakistan has faced urgent calls to address the country's appalling record of violence against journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists has said in a major new report that a total of 23 journalists were murdered in the past decade, with not a single conviction, reports The Independent. The CPJ's Asia programme coordinator Bob Dietz said that the government, ...

  • i Assistant Editors Letter Social media and citizen journalism

    Social media are playing an increasingly large role in news gathering - none more so than this week in the aftermath of the attempted beheading of the off-duty soldier outside Woolwich barracks and the incident involving a BA flight from Heathrow yesterday morning. "Citizen journalism" took over our screens on Wednesday, with footage of the two suspects in the aftermath of the murder ...

  • Journalists say rights are ignored

    And that has led journalists, First Amendment scholars and groups that advocate for government transparency to question how much the White House values a free ...

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The Importance of Being Earnest [DVD]

The Importance of Being Earnest [DVD]

As the most oft-produced of Oscar Wilde's plays and one of the great stage comedies of all time, The Importance of Being Earnest has reached a level of cultural familiarity that, surprisingly enough, has not detracted one bit from its ability to amuse. Not really laugh-out-loud funny, it is rather one that keeps you constantly smiling and chuckling because the wit and wisdom that were Wilde ... ...

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  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Colombia cenbank chief worries about medium-term external shocks

    Fri May 24, 2013 7:18pm EDT * Uribe happy about economic growth, inflation rates * Concerned about shocks coming from EU, US in medium term * Foreign reserves rise, could help protect economy By Helen Murphy and Eduardo Garcia BOGOTA, May 24 (Reuters) - Colombia's central bank chief said on Friday his main challenge over the medium term was preparing the nation for a normalization of U.S. ...

  • FBI’s Top Ten News Stories for the Week Ending May 24 2013

    Headquarters: FBI Mourns the Loss of Two Special Agents Killed in Training ExerciseSpecial Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, members of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, were tragically killed Friday, May 17 during a training exercise off the coast of Virginia Beach, ...

  • Obama reaffirms that free press is essential

    classified information . but a free press is also essential for our democracy. that's who we are. and i'm troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill ...

  • REUTERS SUMMIT-Banco de Bogota sees new players in Colombia eyes Peru

    Fri May 24, 2013 6:40pm EDT * Bank eyes growth in consumer, mortgage sectors * Looking at regional opportunities, sees competition * Banking investments pouring into Colombia By Helen Murphy and Nelson Bocanegra BOGOTA, May 24 (Reuters) - Colombia will remain a hot spot for foreign banks in the coming years as low credit penetration provides ample room for growth, the head of its second-biggest ...

  • Journalist and Author Haynes Johnson Dies at 81

    Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who migrated from newspapers to television, books and teaching, died Friday. He was 81. The Washington Post reported he died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. In a statement to the Post newsroom, Managing Editor Kevin Merida said Johnson died of a heart attack. Johnson was awarded a Pulitzer in 1966 for reporting on the civil rights ...

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