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Condé Nast, part of the privately held Advance Publications, has long prided itself on its luxury magazines, and has reportedly been willing to sustain big losses to maintain its image as the ne plus ultra of wealthy readership. Many speculate that the parent company's newspaper holdings, including such distinguished titles as the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the New Jersey Star-Ledger, propped up the magazine empire. But newspapers are no longer reliable golden geese, and Condé Nast recently called in a management consultancy to see how its business could be streamlined. (Read "Portfolio's Flameout...
...Institute’s celebration of crossing boundaries will entail a symposium to be held later this week...
...announcement came at the second of two public review sessions held by the BRA aimed at collecting community input about a plan to relocate the Charlesview Apartments that is slated for City authorization in the coming months or even weeks. In a bid to consolidate its land holdings in Allston, Harvard has signed an agreement with the Charlesview board that would give the University control of the current apartment buildings, which are situated near the Business School, in exchange for development of a new housing complex a half-mile away...
...Adenhart's car, shouldn't be alive. The violent collision ripped his skull from his spine, resulting in what doctors call internal decapitation. It is almost always fatal. When Wilhite arrived at the hospital after the savage accident, X-rays and a CAT scan showed that his head was held in place only by muscles and skin. But gentle work by paramedics gave a gifted surgeon the chance to literally screw Wilhite's head back on his body...
...been a favorite target of insurgents. In February, John Solecki, the head of the U.N. refugee agency's office in Baluchistan, was kidnapped by Baluch separatist fighters and held for two months before being released. In June, the U.N. was forced to pull its staff out of Peshawar, the capital of the lawless North-West Frontier Province, after a vehicle laden with explosives slammed into the side of a hotel in the city, killing 17 people. Just hours after Monday's attack, the U.N. said all of its offices in Islamabad would be closed indefinitely. That could severely hamper relief...