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What is it about the pull of the moon that holds Hanks fast? Why does a high-powered Hollywood player with the muscle to tackle pretty much any production he wants keep returning to his lunar love...
...newspaper closures will be sure to follow. "People have come into newspapers thinking it's a casino," says Akbar. "It certainly isn't." If publications start cashing in their chips, perhaps the foreign investors now itching get into India will be glad that they weren't let in too fast...
...public education campaign stressing A, B and C. Some activists remain unconvinced. Were and her colleagues point out that abstinence billboards now dot Uganda's capital Kampala where condom posters used to be. Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni, a high-profile member of one of the country's fast-growing evangelical churches, has been spreading a message of abstinence and even advocates a "virginity census," though she's short on details about how to conduct it. President Yoweri Museveni last year attacked the widespread use of condoms in a speech to the U.N. aids Conference in Bangkok. With such...
Only a company whose customers line up along Tokyo blocks clamoring for cheap casual chic would be comfortable predicting being "bigger than Gap." But Tadashi Yanai, CEO of parent company Fast Retailing, expects Uniqlo to reach $10 billion in sales by 2010, with 10% coming from the U.S. The haberdasher's son is introducing neighborhood concept stores--stocked with basics made with colorful Egyptian cotton and Mongolian cashmere--to three high-volume New Jersey malls, to add to Uniqlo's roughly 700 stores in Asia and Britain. Yanai talks big, but expansion failures in the London area...
...Desperate Housewives did that for drama and soaps. But a genre show can hook viewers fast through sensational plots. Guy gets drugged by a hooker--bang, you got 30 million people's attention. Sitcoms depend on gradual bonding with characters, and today's networks, part of media conglomerates, want instant hits. "Laughs are in characters, and no time is being given to establishing them," says Phil Rosenthal, creator of Raymond, which--like Seinfeld and Cheers--had poor ratings its first season...