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...first company on the list is The New York Times (NYT). It has been clear for over two years that the newspaper industry is in grave trouble even though internet initiatives have had some modest success. But, the New York Times chose to keep a number of newspaper properties which have been in trouble, notably The Boston Globe. Investors should want to know why the board did not demand a plan for restructuring the company. The easy answer is that the founding Sulzberger family controls enough of the voting power of the board so that actions by other members could...
...accident of geography turns these ordinary lives into one of India's most surreal dramas. The border between India and Bangladesh, drawn in haste just before India's independence in 1947, snakes through Panidhar. It runs right in front of the modest, thatched-roof home of Fazlur Rehman, 50, the village's unofficial headman. His younger brother lives next door - in another country. "His child, my child are the same," Rehman says. But in Panidhar, the children violate international law every time they run around the small patch of mango and betel-nut trees. A few hundred meters away, Indian...
...long ago in crime and punishment. He grew up in the East Elmhurst section of Queens, N.Y.--so populated by cops and firefighters that rush hour looked like the shift change at a station house. A popular teen prank was setting off the red fire-alarm box near his modest brick house on 101st Street. Nearly everyone tried it once, but not Eric, the churchgoing Boy Scout who knew the consequence of disobeying rules: "A good, quick smack on the bottom," his mother Miriam recalls. "If you did something wrong, you're going to have to pay a price...
...been carefully preserved for the millions of tourists, many of them student groups on school-sanctioned "red tours," who visit Shaoshan each year. Newly built shrines - resembling the sort that might have been demolished as feudal relics in Mao's day - surround a central square with a surprisingly modest bronze statue of the Great Helmsman...
When I began writing about Washington more than 30 years ago, it was a fairly modest town. There were lobbyists; there always had been - just read Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner's hilarious novel The Gilded Age. But in the 1980s, I began to notice that the lobbies of the buildings where the lobbyists lived had gone all marble and melodramatic. A new class of steak houses hit town: now you can buy a Kobe beefsteak for $175 in some joints. The limos multiplied; McMansions sprouted in the near suburbs. In a way, Daschle - a very decent...