首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich an
admin
2013-01-20
82
问题
Don’t call him just a college professor. Internet entrepreneur, TV personality, adviser to presidents, and friend to the rich and powerful would be more accurate.
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is better known for his activities outside the academy. This week he sold Africana. com, a website he created with a fellow Harvard University professor, to Time Warner. Terms of the deal weren’t revealed, though the Wall Street Journal pegged the price at more than $10 million, with Gates reaping up to $ I million. Time Warner will incorporate the site, a portal with news and information about people of African descent, into America Online when the two merge as expected. The sense is that Gates got a very good deal. The site is a rich source of scholarship but hardly a rich source of revenue.
As recently as the late 1980s Gates, who turns 50 this week, was an obscure professor penning books on literary theory only a graduate student could love. Now he can’t be avoided, He hosted a series about Africa on public television, writes occasional articles for the New Yorker, and even advises the Gore presidential campaign. He counts director Steven Spielberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and President Clinton as friends. "They’re not intimate friends," he insists.
Indeed, Gates has evolved into a kind of expert on everything African-American. "He remains the go-to person on the state of African-American affairs," said Perry Steinberg, head of American Program Bureau, a lecture agency. The 30 or so speeches Gates delivers each year are another source of income for the professor.
With fame comes controversy. Several other black intellectuals have taken him to task for not being confrontational enough. Gates has heard it before. "Me? Critics? Oh, what a shock!" But he considers himself more a descendent of historian and educator W. E. B. Du Bois than of Malcolm X. His ultimate goal is to build the field of Afro-American studies. "Fifty years from now I want there to be at least 10 great centers of Afro-American studies," he says.
If working as a consultant on Spielberg’s historical film Amistad or giving A1 Gore advice helps, so be it.
What can we learn about Africans. com?
选项
A、It may be financially mediocre to Time Warner.
B、It is maintained by Gates for Time Warner.
C、It becomes a sister website of America Online.
D、It is meant for the U. S. general public.
答案
A
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/bg2O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
20.______ofover5%areattractiveifthedollarreallyisgoingtostabilize.
Thepresidentexplainedthatthepurposeoftaxationwasto______governmentspending.
Theprofessorcanhardlyfindsufficientgrounds______hisargumentinfavourofthenewtheory.
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
Thebusmovedslowlyinthethickfog.Wearrivedatour_____almosttwohourslater.
Aslongasherparentscanremember,13-year-oldKatieHarthasbeentalkingaboutgoingtocollege.Hermother,Tally,afinanc
Auctionsarepublicsalesofgoods,conductedbyanofficiallyapprovedauctioneer.Heasksthecrowdassembledintheauction-r
Studythepictureasfollowing,andwriteanessayofabout200words.Youressaymustbebasedontheinstructionsasfollows;
Lookatthismess!IfonlyI____youradvice.
FrancoisJacobwrotethat"anageorcultureischaracterizedlessbytheextentofitsknowledgethanbythenatureoftheques
随机试题
下列固定资产中应计提折旧的有()。
进入国际目标市场的模式中属于合同模式的是()
洋地黄类药物的常见心血管系统毒性反应为各种心律失常,其中最常见的是( )。
真人养脏汤与四神丸中均含有的药物是
A.平肝明目B.息风止痉C.凉血止血D.祛风止痛E.疏肝,透疹菊花除疏散风热外,又能()。
在Word中,用户使用“新建”按钮新建了“文档2”,它是该文档的临时文件名。当用户第一次选择菜单“文件”菜单的“保存”命令时,Word会()。
对情节轻微、事实清楚、因果关系明确,不涉及医疗费用、物品损失或者双方当事人对医疗费用和物品损失的赔付无争议,符合治安调解条件,双方当事人同意当场调解并当场履行的治安案件,可以当场调解,并制作调解协议书。()
为了定义自己的鼠标光标,首先应把MousePointer属性设置为【】,然后把【】属性设置为一个图标文件。
为窗体或报表上的控件设置属性值的正确宏操作命令是
Untilrecentlymostastronomersbelievedthatthespacebetweenthegalaxiesinouruniversewasanearperfectvacuum.Thisort
最新回复
(
0
)