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Inside the bomb-scarred old palace, Karzai occupies a simple, one-room apartment. The building is also home to a number of unwelcome squatters, including several commanders loyal to the Defense Minister. Karzai wants them out. But he can't be too pushy. Despite their dubious allegiance, these men happen to head his security, and the slouching guards at the massive stone gates regard Karzai's visitors with open suspicion and disdain. Karzai wants them replaced, and the Americans are hastily training bodyguards for him. But for now, Western diplomats--and even his staff--are worried that Karzai is vulnerable...
...public terrestrial television stations, which paid, by today's standards, mere pocket money for the rights to screen football and other sports. But with the advent of private and pay-TV networks came the search for content that would not only attract viewers, but also build the kind of loyal subscriber bases and demographics that advertisers love. The answer? Sport, once famously described by Murdoch as pay-TV's "battering ram." Broadcasters piled in, sparking a bidding war for sporting content that drove the price of rights for many major events through the stadium roof...
...nation's biggest tech survival and revival story by transforming it into a lean-and-mean IT services company. And he did it just as a nation of IT purchasers, their budgets gone bust, needed services most of all. The result: IBM emerged from the tech downturn with loyal customers, long-term service contracts, high earnings and low costs...
...secret where the ex-Taliban lives. There are a few loyal Pashtun guards at the gate, their weapons hidden but ready. Khaksar says he heard recently that Mullah Omar and a few other Taliban ministers were trying to recruit a hit man to finish him off. "The Taliban have offered a lot of money, and if the assassin dies in completing his mission, the money will go to the assassin's family," Khaksar says. He sits at a desk with a picture of the late Northern Alliance hero, Ahmed Shah Massoud, on his desk, perhaps insurance in case the current...
Whether they do depends less on readers than on advertisers, who for decades have made a cult of youth. "The thinking is that people over 50 are loyal to certain brands, so it's a waste of money trying to advertise to them," says Paul Hale, whose investment-banking firm Veronis Suhler advises media companies. Two earlier efforts to win More's audience, Lear's and Mirabella, collapsed, partly because of lack of advertiser enthusiasm...