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...Disney has become a hit machine and all cylinders are clicking," says Jason Maltby, president of New York-based MediaShare, a New York based ad buying firm. "Its successes breed more successes and provide a platform for new shows like Hannah Montana...
...fearless investigative reporting of Politkovskaya was so remarkable. Just recently, Vladimir Rakhmankov, the editor of a Web magazine in the city of Ivanovo, was fined $750 for a satirical critique of Putin's plans to boost birthrates in Russia. (Rakhmankov slyly noted that foxes, bears and other animals breed at the city zoo because they are well looked after.) It was only thanks to the intervention of a press-freedom group called the Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations that Rakhmankov wasn't jailed, as local prosecutors had demanded. "Our lawyers are always swamped with legal actions taken against local...
Zhang is one of a new breed of Chinese collectors who are helping to turbocharge the contemporary-art scene in China from within. But his competition is not just local. Contemporary Chinese art is currently one of the hottest genres anywhere. In the past 18 months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. And at a Christie's auction last week in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong and Yan Lei set record prices, while Zhang...
Tired of lugging around those clunky, fact-packed travel guides that practically scream, "Look at me! I'm a tourist"? For the discreet visitor who prefers to blend in, there's a new breed of small, specialized and often offbeat urban guides designed to show you how to shop, eat and look like a hip native...
...Democrats took conservative stands that had, in many cases, more in common with the G.O.P. than with the liberal base of their own party. But even in states like Kentucky and Indiana, hardly hotbeds of liberal politics, those assessments weren't borne out. Although many of the supposed new breed of Democrats opposed abortion, gun control and, in some cases, gay marriage, their stance on economic issues put them in the old-fashioned liberal mainstream...