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...understand what this means in human terms, think back to Tod Raphaely, the electronics executive. With his pay slashed a total of 40%, he and his wife have stopped all leisure travel, including their annual Christmas trip to visit family in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Raphaelys, who have no children, have one extravagance. They feed their cats jarred baby food. But they no longer buy the CDs and DVDs they love. Such scrimping means less revenue for all sorts of businesses, which then face pressure to fire workers or cut wages. And so the cycle continues. Thanks...
...songbook is a museum basement of scattered treasures (she is trained in classical Japanese vocal techniques) and trash (she is also the world's most infamous banshee). Ono has long needed a curator, and in 2001 she gave a New Jersey duo called Orange Factory approval to go through her material and remix the 1970 innuendo-filled Open Your Box. "I'm a very difficult person," says Ono, "but when I heard it, I just thought it was beautiful. I cried...
...year history. And he has plenty of company. New York's Republican Governor George Pataki has an approval rating of 43% in the latest Quinnipiac poll, 38 percentage points lower than it was after 9/11. And Pataki is faring better than his neighbors, Democrat James McGreevey of New Jersey (38%) and Republican John Rowland of Connecticut...
...latest fashion trend, women are looking no further than their husbands' gym lockers. Jerseys from all the major sports leagues (NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL) are being refitted and restyled for women as dresses--and they are selling beyond anybody's expectations. "The NBA's women's business is going to see fivefold growth this year from last season," says Sal LaRocca, the NBA's senior vice president of global merchandising. The league has launched an entire clothing line (NBA4Her) marketed to women. Reebok, which is an NBA and NFL licensee, delivered its first line of women's sports-jersey...
Just how big can the trend get? Big enough so that even former New York Giants linebacker Carl Banks is getting into the action. His G-III women's clothing line is devoted in part to jersey fashions. Says former quarterback crusher Banks: "In a time when women are striving to prove their equality to men, it goes to show, anything boys can do, girls can do better...