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...Korhonen, 34, is one of them. PC Doctor, his diagnostic software company based in Emeryville, Calif., was mushrooming with clients like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Intel--but state taxes and high costs were a drag on growth. He spent a year checking out Seattle, Phoenix and Las Vegas, then bet on Reno. His employees took some persuading. Mohidul Saad, 38, a software engineer, learned of the impending move this past summer. The Bangladeshi native and his family had grown attached to their ethnic community in the Bay Area and thought of Reno as a dust-choked gambling town. They have...
...must once and for all admit that there is another side ... that it is suffering and that we are behaving disgracefully." AVRAHAM SHALOM, once head of Israel's Shin Bet security agency, on Israel's tough military tactics toward the Palestinians...
...demographic: down 16% in prime time at ABC, 19% at CBS and 21% at NBC, according to figures from Nielsen Media Research. What's the reason? Theories have ranged from an influx of Hispanic men in the sample (see below) to soldiers being shipped off to Iraq (don't bet on it). Here's a look at the most likely theories...
...Simpsons” jokes are made of. But suppose Jessica were to say something marginally insightful. Suppose Nick were to confess to Jessica that—his emotional abuse notwithstanding—he loved her more than he ever could love another woman. Who wants to bet these moments wouldn’t even make it past the cutting room floor? For shows like “Newlyweds,” they’re toxic—but just a bit of editing magic yields a fabricated narrative worthy of the ten spot...
...real” and Jessica Simpson ends up in Rolling Stone trying to dispel the notion that she’s as ditzy as she’s depicted on “Newlyweds.” Did you know Ally Hilfiger really loves painting in her spare time? Bet you didn’t, because a painting montage just isn’t as entertaining as a shopping montage. She’s a rich girl, remember? That’s what rich girls do—they go on shopping sprees, they get flustered when they have...