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...working this summer at the Forward, a national Jewish weekly based in Manhattan. While the paper prides itself on serious reporting--and I haven't heard of a slush fund to pay willing eye-witnesses to make up stories for us--the reach of the tabloids is unavoidable. No newspaper, no matter how respectable, can escape the popular expectation of "scandal exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have...
...playing field was leveled--for about a minute. Along came the whisper number, and now "the official Wall Street estimates aren't worth the paper and ink used to produce them," asserts Chip Morris, manager of the T. Rowe Price Science and Technology fund. The official estimates are systematically understated. The number that matters is the one analysts call in to their best clients as the earnings date draws near. Last April, Intel reported a doubling in earnings and beat the printed estimates by 6%. The stock fell because the whisper number was higher. Stinks, doesn...
...deepening, dignifying his most private moments with the high and burnished diction of a sunlit Shakespeare. Even more, Walcott has strained and struggled all his life to match sun and rain, to marry the world of autumn leaves and opera houses that he learned to love on paper with the unrecorded "pomme-arac" and fireflies of his long-colonized islands. If the multiculturalists who govern the academy were worthy of a gospel, they would need to look no further...
...strategy that works only when planes are flying full--and their bigger competitors will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen. "It's very hard to make money feeding at the bottom of the barrel," says Perry Flint, executive editor of Air Transport World, a trade paper...
Seltzer and Brown presented a paper together at the 1997 ACM Sigmetrics Conference in Seattle--an international scholarly gathe3ring--a few weeks...