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...judge and a party activist, he was born and raised to take pride in his Republican heritage and his upstate New York State roots. Straight out of Canisius College in Buffalo in 1977, Paxon was elected to the Erie Country State Legislature at the tender age of 23. He quickly rose through the ranks of state politics, and in 1988 he won the seat of Jack Kemp, who ran unsuccessfully for President that year...
...fast. While Reader's Digest still boasts the world's largest magazine circulation--more than 27.8 million monthly copies sold in 19 languages--its feel-good stories and aging readership (average age: 47 and rising) have kept it out of step with the competition. Even before oral sex became a dinner-table topic, the Digest had lost resonance with generations of today's readers. The U.S. subscription base has decreased by a million since 1993. That's not terrible, but to maintain circulation levels, the magazine must add 5 million new subscribers a year. Not an easy task...
Last April, four months before he resigned, CEO James Schadt unveiled a $400 million revitalization plan to push the company out of its morass and move it forward. But his approach, which upended the firm's age-old philosophy of dedicated product testing prior to direct-mail pitches, was roundly criticized by Wall Street as lacking coherence. In the week the plan was presented, the stock dropped 21%. Schadt's strategy was further hampered by the departure of more than two dozen senior executives...
DONALD "DON" IMUS AGE: 57 OCCUPATION: Self-promotion through insulting and annoying others BEST PUNCH: Taking a break from high-minded discussion with Senators and pundits, the I-Man slagged the Donald, first mocking his new book and then referring to him as "a Howard Stern butt...
DONALD "DON" TRUMP AGE: 51 OCCUPATION: Self-promotion through buying and selling others BEST PUNCH: Never too busy to return schoolyard taunts or discuss radio ratings, Trump penned a letter to Imus: "If your ratings were as good as my book sales, you would not be mired in 13th-or-so place...