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...Parting with Pounds After reading Josh Tyrangiel's essay "Getting Pounded," about the high cost of living in London [June 28], I couldn't help running around my office telling everyone that I wasn't just another non-Brit who thinks London is a complete and utter rip-off. Tyrangiel depicted my husband's and my sentiments exactly. May I reassure Tyrangiel that eventually it will get easier to part with his pounds. After a few years, he'll justify spending ?40 on a Diesel T shirt by telling himself he's worked so darned hard that he deserves...
...suffered a loss of $20 million, so a reinvention of the brand looks increasingly urgent. Among other changes, the company's flagship magazine Martha Stewart Living?which saw ad revenue drop 54% in the first quarter?has already been redesigned and its back page, once occupied by a Stewart essay, is now home to the "Cookie of the Month." Stewart vows to return, assuring supporters, "I'll be back ... I'm used to all kinds of hard work." But biscuits and bravado might not be enough to restore the luster of her tattered brand...
BROOKLYN—Most students would probably like to forget their entire college application process—the hours spent agonizing over the dreaded open-ended essay question on something “meaningful.” Most students place what they remember of the experience in that box of bad high school memories alongside taking the SATs, making science fair projects and finding a prom dress. However, for me, deciding what to write about in my college essay was a no-brainer: the New York Yankees...
LETTERS AUSTRALIA OBSERVED: Poll(ies) JOE KLEIN: Bush's toughest foe YOUR TIME: Health ESSAY: Don't knock sequels
...Bowling for Columbine, he amplified his vision into an essay on the U.S. murder rate and attached it to a tragedy: the murder of 12 children and one teacher at a high school in Littleton, Colo. When he was given the Oscar for best documentary, Moore declared, in front of an uneasy audience and a billion TV viewers, "We live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious President. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons ... Shame...