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Consider Zucker's example, The Office. Its ratings are poor, but its audience is rich. Its viewer incomes are among the highest of any network show. If its viewers are loyal, flush and tech-savvy enough that they'll pay not to miss episodes--or to watch them on their own schedule--the revenue could help keep such a marginal but critically praised show on the air. With new distribution channels, a production company could even try to sell a canceled cult show directly to the public. Nothing like this will happen immediately. It took DVD years to take...
...MANAGE BRINGING UP TWO DAUGHTERS WITH YOUR CAREER? I have cut back a lot on my travel, by reducing the number of operas I sing. Now I do more recitals. My daughters are happy. I take my cue from them. They know that they are my highest priority. I was reading recently there is this huge wave of women with spectacular educations who are leaving the work force to look after their children. When I was growing up, we thought we had it best because we could have it all: family and career. It is always fragile, being a parent...
Those gods--who rule the Japan Sumo Association--have long felt that there has been a bit too much foreign infusion. Indeed, in the past two years, the only wrestler to hold the highest sumo rank of yokozuna has been Asashoryu, a 25-year-old sensation from Mongolia (where he was born Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj). Asashoryu has won the past six grand sumo tournaments, and he appears to be on track to win his seventh, which would be a record. One of the most popular up-and-comers today is Kotooshu, 22, a Bulgarian (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov) with quick feet...
...million Value of outfielder Hideki Matsui's new four-year contract with the New York Yankees, making him the highest-paid Japanese baseball player in the major leagues
...Japan and Korea are prime examples of highly industrialized nations trying to hold onto an identity that is rooted in an agrarian past. The two countries maintain some of the highest barriers to an imported food staple in the world. South Korea maintains a strict quota that limits rice imports to just 4% of the country's total annual consumption. About 7% of Japanese consumption is accounted for by imported rice, but hardly any of it actually reaches supermarkets. Much of it is stuffed into government surplus warehouses or passed on to other countries as food aid. Foreign rice that...