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...called Eros, an elegant journal of the lower appetites, and at a Charter Subscription rate of $19.95 for four issues it could bill itself as "the most expensive magazine in the world." Eros proved plenty expensive for Ginzburg: he lost not only Eros, when the Post Office declared it unfit, but his career, when he was sentenced to five years in a federal prison. (He served eight months.) After Eros he put out other magazines, such as Fact, Avant Garde and Moneysworth, but never regained his footing or his brio. In his last years he was a news photographer, mainly...
...idea how much money the magazine made or lost, before it was shut down, and what its true circulation was. I can guess that Ginzburg wasn't rolling in the dough. With the fourth issue came this flyer: "LAST CHANCE! If you act now, you may still become a Charter Subscriber to Eros." From the screaming capital letters and the shrillness of the italicized "now," even a teenager could tell that Eros wasn't a money-minter like Playboy. It wasn't sexy like Playboy either, and that was probably one reason I let my subscription lapse. Turns...
...seven missiles, including one designed to reach the U.S. Even more surprising than the test (it failed less than two minutes after launch) was Bush's response to it. Long gone were the zero-tolerance warnings that peppered his speeches four years ago, when he made North Korea a charter member of the "axis of evil" club and declared at West Point that "the only path of safety is the path of action." Instead, Bush pledged to "make sure we work with our friends and allies ... to continue to send a unified message" to Pyongyang. In a press conference following...
...Knowles recommends the retraction of Shleifer’s appointment, University rules dictate that he must go to the Corporation for implementation. The third statute of the University’s charter gives the Corporation the authority to remove professors only for “grave misconduct or neglect of duty...
...Morales' hope is that Bolivia's new charter will serve as a model for the ascendant new left in Latin America, a chance to "redefine the rules of the game" in a region where the gap between rich and poor is the widest in the world. But the July 2 vote was also a reminder that even Morales' revolution is subject to checks and balances - and that changing the rules will require the age-old game of political horse trading...