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...newspaper type, even dictate just how sausage is made...Because computer technology is so new and computers require such sensitive handling, a new breed of specialists have grown up to tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their...
Having cultivated an identity, the network rarely deviates from it. "The way to get into minds and living rooms is to make your network a brand, and that's what Lifetime does so successfully," says Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at the Wall Street firm Sanford C. Bernstein. Every show reinforces the brand image, whether it's the profiles of celebrated women on Intimate Portrait or original movies like Video Voyeur, based on a true story about a woman who discovers her churchgoing neighbor is a Peeping...
DIED. INDRA DEVI, 102, early "yoga ambassador" to the West whose students included China's Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gloria Swanson and Greta Garbo; in Buenos Aires. After persuading globally renowned guru Sri Krishnamacharya to teach her (his first woman student), she traveled the world teaching her gentle brand of yoga, even prompting Russia to legalize the practice after she met with leaders...
Saddam is everywhere. Though he never appears in public, his face and figure are inescapable. At traffic circles, you see little stone Saddams and big cast-metal Saddams, right arm raised to embrace his people. In front of a ministry, a brand-new bronze Saddam stands 20 ft. tall in the prow of a boat: the idea is that Saddam will steer his people to the shining shore on the other side of sanctions. On a wall, a white-suited Saddam is painted holding flowers; on another, a uniformed Saddam is staring through binoculars at a battlefield; on a third...
Torrid is obviously hitting a sweet spot--and the timing could not be better for its 361-store parent, Hot Topic, which is hitting some growth bumps in its namesake brand. The $336 million-a-year company, based in City of Industry, Calif., will add 15 Torrid stores this year. "It's about style, not about size," notes Hot Topic CEO Betsy McLaughlin, who says the idea for Torrid blossomed out of pleas from Hot Topic customers for larger-size merchandise. In North Attleboro, Mass., store manager Amy Lynn, 23, who sports purple-streaked hair and a tongue stud, says...