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...many retailers, playing the portal game means paying for high-profile promotions in all the right categories and top placement in search returns. In the case of Proflowers, Web users who enter, say, the flowers category at shopping.yahoo.com or run a keyword search for delphinium at shopping.msn.com might see a colorful ad--maybe a pop-up, maybe just text and a photo--for a specific offer ("One Dozen Roses! $29.99"). All told, Proflowers pays in the low to mid-seven figures for a year's worth of portal ads. Depending on the contract, it might share a piece...
...executive Liz Ryan never did like professional networking events. During her nine years with modemmaker U.S. Robotics, outside Chicago, industry cocktail parties, at which people seemed intent on bragging their way up the corporate food chain, made her queasy. "I once read that the secret to networking was to enter a crowded room with 50 business cards and get rid of them in an hour. That made my stomach turn," says the unpretentious Ryan. "For me, it would just be wasting cards...
...Enter Samrat Upadhyay, Kathmandu-born but U.S.-educated, here to trim the verbal overgrowth. Upadhyay, whose first book was a well-regarded collection of short stories called Arresting God in Kathmandu, is that rarity among authors of a subcontinental drift: he is an under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything...
Service workers had been in negotiations for over a year with the university, renewing their contract on a month-by-month basis, but Yale hasn’t changed its wage offer since last June. When the unions offered to enter binding arbitration in February, the school administration refused. This breakdown in bargaining, given the low wages and poor working conditions at the school, gave workers no option but to strike...
...Enter Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah). Unlike Peter, she does have it all figured out. The only thing holding her back is her armed robbery conviction...