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...behind the burgeoning social network at MySpace.com. The two-year-old service hosts music, chat rooms and blogs, as well as personal and classified ads. But not all online companies are created equal. Google and Yahoo! are squeezing the online ad market share of smaller search engines or general content firms, insists Kessler: "Not everyone is going to be a winner." To investors, that should seem oddly familiar. - By Adam Smith Phone Lines In The Sand Even with electricity and security uncertain in much of Iraq, telecommunications remains a serious business. In London last week, scores of telecoms companies turned...
...high school, Roberts applied to La Lumiere, a competitive Catholic boarding school about 12 miles away in La Porte, Ind. "I won't be content to get a good job by getting a good education," he wrote at age 13 in an application letter. "I want to get the best job by getting the best education." It was an all boys' school when Roberts entered in 1969--"Most of our dating life came from observing the school dog, Daisy," says schoolmate Tommy Kerrigan--and free time was consumed by three mandatory sports (Roberts ran track, wrestled and was co-captain...
...executive producer Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue) when FX pitched him the idea. The show, he worried, "would by its very nature tend to be political if not politicized." He finally decided that the basic human drama was like that in his cop shows, and the content was ugly but necessary. "Without dramatizing the consequences of terrible, violent events," he says, "you aren't doing your...
...anyone else contact you as a result of the publicity from the book? What were some of the reactions of the people you wrote about? Have you talked to them about the content...
...JONES, former Congressman and actor who played Cooter on the Dukes of Hazzard, objecting on his website to the reported profanity and sexual content in the movie remake of the TV series...