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...only child, Francesca, and, just a few months later, her teetering marriage fell apart. Although Scottoline loved practicing law, she discovered that she loved being home with her daughter more. "I realized that as a litigator, I just wouldn't see her," says Scottoline, "and she had no other parent on the scene...
...caterer grew progressively worse. "The tomato soup would end up containing only three rice grains and with only a faint notion of a real tomato," says Sigrid Beer, a mother of three kids at the school and a nutrition researcher. "We decided that we needed something more healthy." The parents now run their own independent cafeteria with eight employees. It regularly feeds 300 children - up from 70 a little over a decade ago. In Britain, where school lunches can be an awful reminder of the country's fat- and starch-filled culinary past, celebrity chef Oliver's campaign to improve...
...Jazeera of its rulers. The English channel is apt to employ the sort of guerrilla business tactics that the Arabic channel has used. Initially limited to advertising from Qatari companies, the Arabic channel gradually attracted international brands and boosted its revenues threefold by, among other things, making deals with parent companies rather than with regional subsidiaries. Although al-Jazeera is subsidized by the Qatari government, it has attracted advertisements from Nokia, Olympus, Sony, Adidas, Hyundai, Jaguar and others. But, says Pierre Azzam, regional director in Dubai of the advertising agency Impact-BBDO, ads on al-Jazeera seem to have dropped...
...think they haven't noticed. Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, the parent company of U.K. publisher News International, admitted in February that Associated's free Metro may have dented circulation of his top-selling Sun tabloid by as many as 40,000 copies per day. "The record of these free newspapers has been ... to more seriously damage existing newspapers," Murdoch said. In the U.S., at least one prestigious publisher felt it had to join the free movement; the New York Times Company in January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated...
...play especially well with partners--like the people who write games and make consumer electronics--has little experience building hardware and has never shown much aptitude for nurturing fun, cool brands. So they set up a kind of separate minicompany within Microsoft, insulated from the institutional lameness of its parent. "They allowed us to set up a separate division almost, that is physically, geographically, psychologically and spiritually different from what Bill himself calls the Borg," says Peter Moore, the V.P. in charge of marketing the new Xbox. Moore knew that whatever has made Microsoft successful thus far wouldn't help...