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...living-wage movement is generating organized resistance, notably among hotel and restaurant owners and other employers of low-wage workers. "I feel every minimum wage, even at the federal level, costs jobs," says Jerome Fein, 51, owner of the venerable Court of Two Sisters restaurant in New Orleans. "I think it's a business decision, not a government decision." New Orleans' new law, Fein says, will cost jobs at his restaurant and elsewhere in the city. But a large majority of the city's voters--including many of the 47,000 who work in service jobs--believe that their bosses...
...something was amiss. The party seemed more crowded than cool. Kidman walked the red carpet, lingered on the fringes, then told friends she just wanted to go home and take a bath. And there was the final sketch of the evening. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein and DreamWorks co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg, both players in this year's especially combative Oscar race, took the stage in gladiator uniforms for a mock therapy session that hit a little too close to home. "You fat f___!" exclaimed Katzenberg at one point, echoing a sentiment not uncommon in Hollywood but usually muttered behind...
...bikers and pedestrians gave ground to trucks and scooters amidst the harum-scarum commerce practiced in stalls up and down the Old Islamic Quarter. On Friday hundreds of men and women streamed out of Al-Hussein Mosque, and while I sat and watched, drinking apple tea, a watermelon cart owner did a brisk business selling his wares to the parched masses...
...seed! Ha! This team hasn’t advanced past the first round of the NHL playoffs since 1620. Didn’t the Bruins trade all of their good players at the start of the season? Didn’t I hear all this whining about Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs this year, when some thought he might buy the Red Sox? Wasn’t the argument that the Bruins will never win a championship under Jacobs and Harry Sinden because they don’t spend enough money...
...early days of the Internet, media tycoons from the old line venues looked to the Internet with fear. Ubiquitous and cheap, the new medium threatened their businesses with extinction or, worse, irrelevance. They did what any responsible business owner would do when faced with such a situation: they attempted, quite successfully, to co-opt the revolution by launching their own Internet news and analysis sites. By 2001, CBS Marketwatch, CNN.com and Dow Jones OpinionJournal.com had proven far more influential and popular than their upstart new economy challengers TheStreet.com, Slate.com and Salon.com. The revolution, it appeared, was over...