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Here's one more reason to take vacations: it gives your employees a chance to write best-selling books. Last week BREENA CLARKE, who since 1985 has worked for a series of TIME editors, had her first novel, River, Cross My Heart, selected for Oprah's book club. "I wrote it while working full time," says Clarke, who now administers Time Inc.'s editorial-diversity program. "I used weekends and nights, and it always helped when editors took vacations." After Oprah's announcement, the novel shot up Amazon.com's best-seller list. Says current boss, Time Inc. executive editor Jose...
While these reasons all have resonance, your basic trader is a superstitious fellow, given to viewing charts that show graphically how a company's stock has fared over time. One quick perusal of the chart book shows a heart-stopping dip every 10th month of the year. Why tempt fate? Why not just get out ahead of that plunging line...
...Ballet, is one of the most innovative and heralded of new choreographers, having inspired big articles in Time and Dance Magazine. Daring to re-choreograph an already well-loved ballet, in Firebird he creates a new masterpiece from an old one, his choreography departing from the Nutcracker-esque story-book ballet tradition in fresh and captivating ways...
...with George W.'s seamless good luck, Texas law enforcement officials have decided that J. H. Hatfield is in fact James Hatfield, who served time for the attempted murder of his boss 11 years ago. Hatfield disputes the charges, but St. Martin's Press has suspended printings of the book and is notifying booksellers of its questionable origins...
...many vultures. Whereas a week ago the cocaine allegations were relegated primarily to supermarket rags, the new revelations about Hatfield allow the general media to pounce on the more sordid aspects of "Fortunate Son." The New York Times, for example, admitted to receiving an advance copy of the book but decided against printing the cocaine story because they "spent several days looking for evidence that might corroborate Hatfield's account." They came up short, and dropped the story ? until now. Will the public dismemberment of Hatfield's credibility do anything to reinforce a hands-off attitude among the national media...