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...rated, critically acclaimed and successful cable shows like HBO's The Sopranos and FX's The Shield, network TV has found audiences increasingly blase about sex and violence. This season Jack Bauer killed and decapitated a prisoner on 24, and a helicopter blade lopped off Dr. Romano's arm on E.R., while on Friends, married couple Monica and Chandler got advice on sex positions--from Monica's dad. Each show enjoys high ratings and bounteous ads. Perversely, this may be bad for Kingpin, because, let's face it, when a network bravely admits that a new show...
...dinosaur to a technology-services dynamo--a firm that, rather than just selling computers and software, can persuade FORTUNE 500 clients to let it provide all their technology needs, from support staff to data storage. Over just the past half-year, Palmisano has spent $3.5 billion for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave IBM the people and contacts to turbocharge its services business, and has paid $2 billion for Rational Software, which provided new software-development tools. He agreed to sell IBM's money-losing hard-drive business to Hitachi. And he's still working his magic on clients...
...fatigue," "low self-esteem" and "feelings of hopelessness"? (You need only two of those, along with a couple of friends telling the doctor you seem depressed, to be a good candidate for something called dysthymic disorder.) Though it's fashionable these days to think of psychiatry as just another arm of medicine, there is no biological test for any of these disorders. While imaging techniques have shown abnormalities in the brain of some people with schizophrenia, no scan can diagnose even that severe condition, let alone something opaque like "histrionic personality disorder." (For which the DSM lists the following...
...circulating proposals for a policy of "tailored containment," under which U.S. naval ships would block North Korean missile exports--depriving the regime of one of its only sources of income--and the U.N. would impose economic sanctions against North Korea. Winning support for the idea will require high-level arm twisting. China, which supplies the bulk of North Korea's oil, is wary of exacerbating the privations that have already sent thousands of North Korean refugees across the border. U.S. officials think, however, that China's leaders can be swayed to squeeze North Korea, given Beijing's concern that...
...sort of new work we should be doing." Boyd plans to introduce a regular summer festival of new work to run alongside productions of Shakespeare. "And we're looking for modern classics exactly like Midnight's Children. If Salman Rushdie wants to return, I'd bite his arm off!" The author might be tempted. Although he has plans for another novel next, Rushdie says he's enjoying the rehearsal process so much, he may write an original play sometime in the future. And, if new discussions for a movie of Midnight's Children bear fruit - Rushdie says one Hollywood studio...