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More on the contretemps between the Los Angeles Times' publisher and editor and their corporate betters at the Tribune Co. in Chicago, who wants budget and staff cuts. Those corporate betters are in turn under pressure from major investors who think Tribune Co. stock is undervalued. An excerpt from the Sept. 21 NYT story: … Some of [...]
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The drive among the affluent to raise perfect little corporate robots isn't limited to any one continent or culture, as this NYT article shows. Some excerpts: A generation ago, when people still dressed in monochromes and acquiring great wealth, never mind flaunting it, was generally illegal, the route to success was to join the right Communist [...]
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Read this excerpt of an NYT yarn about a “Club Med for dogs.” When Top Dog’s owner, Jean Beuning, hired a contractor three years ago to install a tiled, in-ground, heated swimming pool for dogs, the builder initially told her that she was out of her mind, she said. But Ms. Beuning had heard that [...]
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Generally speaking, Bill Clinton is an in-control kinda guy. Which made his performance on Fox News Sunday all the more remarkable! You can see some of the video at this CTV.ca story. What tripped his trigger were questions about his administration's response to the rising threat posed by al Qaeda in the late 1990s and [...]
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