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...their prayers. And so we treat their pastors as partisan players, their churches as focus groups. How is that likely to affect the choices candidates make, the churches they join, the counsel they seek? Will they have to vet their congregations the way they do their Cabinets? Or follow Richard Nixon's example and move services into the White House, where he found them to be the ideal opportunity to reward friends and woo donors and twist arms, all the while singing, "He will hold me fast/ For my Saviour loves...
...weeks, Lehman battled Einhorn's assertions. Some of the Wall Street analysts who follow the firm dismissed him as a half-informed dabbler. Then Lehman disclosed that it had lost $2.8 billion in the second quarter. It raised $6 billion by selling new shares, addressing Einhorn's concerns about overindebtedness. It removed its chief financial officer and chief operating officer. Chief executive Richard Fuld got on the company public-address system and declared, "Einhorn didn't lose us $2.8 billion. We lost...
...questions from an audience that normally is not screened in advance. Despite a bad knee, he nearly trots across a hall to allow a voter to ask a question. "I'd like you to hang on to the microphone," he tells his citizen interrogators, often inviting them to ask follow...
...tens of millions of users, and the features you see are those which Craigslist users have asked for," says Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO. Buckmaster says that the company is less concerned with competition and growing marketshare than it is with serving its existing users. "We're simply trying to follow through on feedback received from our users," he adds. As sites like Kijiji and Oodle gain traction, and even unlikely entrants like MySpace and Facebook join the fray with their own listings, more users may notice what they're missing - and demand an upgrade...
...Tokuda's exploits have proved to be a goldmine for Glory Quest, which first launched an "old man" series, Maniac Training of Lolitas, in December 2004. Its popularity led the company to follow up with Tokuda starring in Forbidden Elderly Care in August 2006. Other series followed, and soon elder porn had revealed itself as a sustainable new revenue stream for the industry. "The adult-video industry is very competitive," says Glory Quest p.r. representative Kayoko Iimura. "If we only make standard fare, we cannot beat other studios. There were already adult videos with Lolitas or themes of incest...