Nielsen Will Add Mobile Viewership to Ratings
Date: 20 September 2013
By BRIAN STELTER
Nielsen plans to start incorporating some viewership of television shows on phones and tablets into its industry-standard TV ratings system in the fall of 2014; networks have been pressuring Nielsen to include mobile viewers in ratings reports that calibrate advertising rates and influence the perceptions of success and failure.
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With Festival, Paris Seeks to Reclaim Literary Reputation
Date: 20 September 2013
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
Paris is reaching out to global literary world to recapture its place on cutting edge of culture with new festival of international writers; Ecrivains du Monde festival signals new appreciation of primacy of international writing.
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Task Force Backs Changes in Legal Education System
Date: 20 September 2013
By TAMAR LEWIN
Task force of the American Bar Assn, faced with rising student debt and declining applications to law schools, is calling for sweeping changes in legal education, including training people without law degrees to provide limited legal services and opening bar to those who have not completed four years of college and three years of law school.
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‘Breaking Bad’ Props to Be Auctioned
Date: 20 September 2013
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Screenbid.com, new auction site focused on sale of movie and television props, will sell about 250 items from AMC television series Breaking Bad.
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Old Slogan Returns as United Asserts It Is Customer-Focused
Date: 20 September 2013
By JANE L. LEVERE
Advertising column notes that after an almost 20-year hiatus, United Airlines is once again urging travelers to 'fly the friendly skies'; examines campaign that has resurrected iconic tagline created by Leo Burnett in 1965.
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Suit Is Filed Over Eviction of Food Truck at Racetrack
Date: 20 September 2013
By THOMAS KAPLAN
Andrea Loguidice and Brandon Snooks, owners of the Wandering Dago food truck, file lawsuit against New York State, claiming that state officials violated their free speech rights when they evicted them from Saratoga Race Course in July, citing their company name as derogatory toward Italian-Americans.
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Reid Leads Chiefs to Win in His Return to Philadelphia
Date: 20 September 2013
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NFL Roundup; Kansas City Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles, 26-16, making Andy Reid’s coaching return to Philadelphia a success; other football news noted.
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Cornell Men Punished for Hazing
Date: 20 September 2013
By GREG BISHOP
Cornell cancels all fall competitions for its men’s lacrosse team for what the university describes as 'a team hazing incident.'
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Dodgers Wrap Up N.L. West Title; Red Sox Clinch Spot
Date: 20 September 2013
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baseball Roundup; Los Angeles Dodgers beat Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6, and win their division for first time since 2009; Boston Red Sox defeat Baltimore Orioles, 3-1, to clinch their postseason berth; other scores noted.
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Grab Your Partner. Do-Si-What? In the Middle of Manhattan?
Date: 20 September 2013
By LISA W. FODERARO
Bryant Park will host second of three square dances planned for September; first, on Sept 9, attracted 760 dancers, many of whom may not have realized they were part of the revitalization of a dance form that was, improbably, a rage in post-war New York in the 1940s.
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