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...build media brands to profitability, with the plan to start a new brand every six months. Little did we know how difficult it would be. The first brand was supposed to be weddings; the next, home; and the next, a baby thing. We did a competitive analysis with Brides, Modern Bride, Elegant Bride and Bridal Guide. Online it was Weddingplanner.com, USAbride.com and WeddingsUSA.com. If you had the word wedding or bride in your title, you were what we called white noise. There were no media products in this category that people felt loyal...
...better remembered. Historically, says Memon, Amir Hamza's stories were narrated in episodes "as performance - it was not just a book you can pick up and read alone." Indeed, recitals often took place in front of paintings like those of the Hamzanama. But with the advent of modern printing presses, the complexity and poetical phrasing of the dastan - so perfect by the flickering light of a fire and before a richly colored canvas - began to seem affected, if not a little odd, set down in stark, black-and-white text. Amir Hamza needed to breathe the air of a premodern...
...gift. That's not to say that it's without flaws. The faithful rendition occasionally gets a bit confusing - mostly due to its whirlwind of countless characters and lightning-quick changes of scene. But it does succeed in offering, in Farooqi's words, "a bridge between [Adventures] and the modern world." Non-Urdu-speaking readers can at last appreciate an epic "on par with anything in the Western canon." And, with luck, the classical pantheon populated by indomitable Achilles, cunning Odysseus and righteous King Arthur will now be joined by a new beloved hero: mercurial, mighty Amir Hamza, astride...
...decades ago, Puebla was designated a World Heritage Site, paving the way for its modern revival and a clutch of new tourist developments. The zócalo was restored, and new nonstop flights from the U.S. brought more visitors. With the opening in spring this year of La Purificadora, www.lapurificadora.com, Puebla has a hotel that does it justice too. Created by the team behind Mexico City's chic Hotel Condesa DF, La Purificadora takes its name from the 19th century water-purification plant and ice factory in which it's housed. Today, the structure has been given new life...
...there are Australian traits that do, indisputably, come down to modern Australia from the vanished days of the bush, and even from the convict era. They are wound tightly into our social history. One of these is the value set on "mateship"; another, related to it, is a much paraded dislike of elitism. Mateship--essentially, male bonding--began in the harsh world of the penal settlement. It continued in the hardly less tough environment of labor that was the lot of most men in the bush: shearers, station hands, shepherds. To have a mate was to survive; to betray that...