Netflix signs overseas streaming deal with MGM


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Netflix has penned a deal with production house MGM to stream the latter’s movies in UK and Ireland when it commences operations there in early 2012, the company announced Nov. 7. It will become the exclusive subscription streaming provider of MGM movies in the region. Netflix will be providing most first-run feature films within a […]

Video interview: Kiffin


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USC coach Lane Kiffin speaks after Tuesday's practice about the upcoming game against Washington and the team's current state.

Students get an education in “Financial Swagger”


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“Banks prey on students just like us.” That’s what Gabe Albarian, a graduate student at the USC Marshall School of Business and author of Financial Swagger, is trying to tell students. On Nov. 8 at 7:00 p.m., Albarian gave a presentation that spelled out how undergraduates should take care of their financial education and learning […]

Behind enemy lines: Washington


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The last two times USC has met Washington on the gridiron, things did not end well for the Trojans. Former USC coordinators and current Washington coaches Steve Sarkisian and Nick Holt have gotten the better of the Trojans two straight years, notching a 16-13 win in Seattle in 2009 and a 32-31 victory in Los […]

Admissions Office hosts Twitter dialogue with students, parents


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In a network-savvy move, the USC Admissions Office took its question-and-answer session online from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Wednesday. The Twitter-based information session allowed interested applicants and families to sit in on an admissions answer session remotely, as officers tweeted updates. From 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., the floor belonged to those remote Twitter […]

Production mogul to potentially work exclusively with Sony


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A few songs that you might or might not have heard on the radio in the last year: “Till the World Ends,” “Blow,” “Price Tag,” “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” and basically every other Katy Perry hit to dominate airplay. So what do these songs have in common? They are all mainstream, pop, Top 40 material for sure, but […]

“Personhood” measure fails in Mississippi


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Voters in Mississippi struck down the controversial “personhood” ballot initiative Nov. 8, which would have effectively banned abortion in all cases including incest and rape, among other forms of birth control. Initiative 26 would have amended the state constitution to define “personhood” at the moment an egg is fertilized, making it illegal to harm or […]