Why Jon Stewart's Business Plan is WinningHumor Wins Whenever Incompetence RulesJon Stewart is a gifted comedian who, much like Will Rogers of several generations ago, has long mined the ever present and rich resource of government nonsense. It is Jon's great fortune that the grotesquely bloated government bureaucracies today...
CHALK IT UP to a depressed ad market or simply shifting demographics, but Wall Street's paper of record is changing layout and focus. When the financial community picks up The Wall Street Journal on April 9, they'll find that the Gray Lady has gone c CHALK...
Reliabilty, quality and consistency are attributes long associated with The New York Times. So what happened when Chairman-CEO Arthur Sulzberger Jr. added two new sections and color to the 102-year-old "Gray Lady?" Reliabilty, quality and consistency are attributes long associated with The New York Times....
DORIAN GRAY King's Theatre EDINBURGH **** Matthew Bourne is now the world's most popular choreographer, an international hit since the success of his Swan Lake with male swans. The advance ticket sales for his new Dorian Gray have already made it the most highly attended dance...
Splotched clouds on blue skies, Gray fog fingering hilltops: Perfect August day! -- haiku by Lura Osgood, Pleasant Hill CAT QUIRKS Friday, we talked about a strange cat named Steve with a fetish for socks,...
Even the biggest names played their first gigs as support acts. JAMES MCNAIR asks stars - past and present - how it felt to be lower down the pecking order JIMMY PAGE, LED ZEPPELIN We didn't do many supports other...
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HE'S Corrie's ruthless factory boss who charms a teenage temptress behind his gorgeous fiancee's back. You think it would be a dream role for any actor... but for Gray O'Brien it's just another day at the office. "I...
The Transport minister, Tom Harris, has come under fire for suggesting that despite soaring bills and mortgage misery, Britons still had plenty to be grateful for. But was he right?Rob Sharp took to the streets to ask: what willkeep our spirits up, now that times are...
LONDON -- President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are confronting the twin challenges of Iran's nuclear ambitions and troop levels in Iraq in two days of talks capping the president's farewell tour of Europe. Their meetings, which begin today, amount to...
HI! I'm an Old White Woman. What are you? If you don't know your category you weren't paying attention when the talking heads were analyzing the results of the West Virginia primary and handing out categories left and right, especially right. It seems that the...
Recording artist Gladys Knight was working on her first solo single in 1978, a disco-dancing song whose title, "It's a Better Than Good Time," would come to describe the feeling of many Latter- day Saints on June 8 that year. After more than...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Judith Bernstein's recent show at Mitchell Algus Gallery, a kind of mini-retrospective titled "Signature and Phallic Drawings: 1966-2008," leaves us impatient for a fuller treatment of her career, as well as a robust presentation of her current work. Her "Supercock" drawings,...
Byline: EMILY BRYSON YORK And NATALIE ZMUDA Sampling: Its the new medium. One of marketings oldest and least glamorous practices-doling out free product-has come a long way from the gray-haired ladies in the supermarket aisle. No longer...
MW is not one to gush, but plaudits are due to BBC Scotland for making top-quality hay with the Bendy Wendy story. Glenn Campbell started it all off albeit on an inaccurate cue from the Sunday Mirror by prompting Wendy to blurt out a potentially union-busting U-turn on his Sunday...
With this issue, New Hampshire Business Review, in partnership with AARP New Hampshire, begins a regular series focusing on an issue that is - or at least should be - of increasing concern to the state businesses: employing older workers. In this first article, Deborah Russell, director of...
TO OUR READERS: This is one in a series of stories about members of The Gazette's Best & Brightest Class of 2008. Kelly Dotseth didn't feel appreciated that day as she volunteered at the Marian House Soup Kitchen, greeting people at...
So wrong for so long; how the press, the pundits--and the president--failed in Iraq. Mitchell, Greg. Union Square 2008 298 pages $14.95 Paperback DS79 It took the New York Times nearly a year to...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The commercial begins with a voice-over asking, "What do you think cars will be running on in the future?" "Grass, leaves, trees, garbage," suggests a soccer mom standing on a leafy street. "Hydrogen fuel cells," says a gray-haired hippie lady standing with her bike...
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