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...going to try to morph into the network of quality? Don't hold your breath - until recently, it was still considering "The Tranny," a transsexual comedy with RuPaul - but it may now have to expand beyond boy magnets like "Smackdown!" if it wants to build on this coup and keep its new viewers...
...according to Iconoculture, a research company hired by J.P. Morgan to track wealth culture in 12 cities. Larry Samuel, a partner in Iconoculture, thinks the World taps perfectly into today's moneyed mentality: "If bragging rights are defined more by what you do than what you own, what a coup it will be to tell somebody that this is how you live...
...crept toward the yardarm and it was time to drink again. The Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, a talented fanatic, would attend dinner parties until midnight, then go home and write until dawn. He died by ritual suicide in the midst of leading his private militia in a notably screwball coup attempt at a Japanese army headquarters...
TIME.com: Now that the Kremlin has completed its coup against the independent media owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, the journalists at NTV have lost their battle, while those at some of the group's magazines and newspapers have lost their jobs, too. What does the future hold for independent-minded journalists in Russia...
...nationwide reach. It has been raided dozens of times, founder Vladimir Gusinsky is in Spain fighting extradition and other executives have fled the country. Judges have consistently ruled against NTV ? or quickly changed their minds if they ruled in favor of the company. Last week should have seen the coup de grace for NTV. As legislators assembled for the President's annual message to the two houses of parliament, Gazprom, the state-controlled natural resources monopoly and a major NTV shareholder, dismissed the network's top management. Full Story...