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...Jury is part of Fox's strategy to forgo the summer-rerun season. The network launches six new shows this month, even though the summer has been friendlier to escapist confections like The O.C. and, especially, reality series. Then again, consider how many great reality-show moments--tribal councils, boardrooms--are just people sitting around talking. As on many reality shows, The Jury ends in a dramatic "reveal": a flashback, after the verdict, to the crime (or noncrime), which lets the audience see whether the jury got it right. It makes for provocative, thoughtful endings, the kind that could just...
Industry experts attribute the buzz in higher-end mowers to several factors. As the average suburban lot size has increased--up 5.7% from 1992 to 2002--homeowners have been trading up to riding mowers. Baby boomers hitting retirement are dumping their old push mowers and warming to the back-friendlier seats and softer suspensions on many models. Folks in a rush are buying models that reduce gardening time. And there has been plenty of cheap credit to grease sales. "Consumers are voting with their pocketbooks," says John Jenkins, president of Deere's commercial and consumer division, which forecasts...
...governmental power," said Theodore Roosevelt, "means the enslavement of the people by the great corporations." Theodore Roosevelt? They don't make Republicans the way they used to. As President, Roosevelt pursued a bellicose foreign policy but an increasingly liberal policy at home, one less beholden to business interests and friendlier to workers and the environment than the conservative wing of his party would have liked. After he left the White House, he was increasingly disappointed by the rightward drift of his handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Before Taft's first term was up, Roosevelt was ready to challenge...
...percent of France's 2.5 million businesses employ fewer than 50 people - yet they still make up 53% of the labor market. Despite Lenoir's major gripes with France's labor strictures and tax regimes, he says he's willing to wait on French reform instead of defecting to friendlier business environments in the U.K. or Eastern Europe. In addition to exempting businesses with 20 employees or fewer from the 35-hour week, France's conservative government is considering measures to lighten corporate taxes and allow companies to hire and fire with greater freedom. It's also examining calls...