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...team. And the league needs only to deliver a mediocre 4.5 Nielsen rating to make its 10-week 8 p.m. Saturday time slot on nbc a success, as long as it attracts the overvalued young male demographic. Networks are increasingly willing to play cable station with their off-peak hours...
...Connubial blisters form right after the ceremony, on the newlyweds' drive from San Francisco down to a Mexican resort. Lila knows the words to every song on the radio and brays them at peak pitch. (Could Eddie not have tuned in to something more soothing, like Rush Limbaugh?) In bed, Lila's lovemaking is suspiciously professional: her moves include the Inverted Corkscrew, the Swedish helicopter and the Jackhammer, and she's given to screaming, "F--- me like a black guy, Eddie!" (On the plus side, she got his name right.) By the time Lila has disregarded Eddie's warnings about...
...hobbies.“There are levels of nerdy things you can do,” says Miller sheepishly. “It starts with something like Harry Potter and then it goes up to WoW, and then it goes to trading card games. That’s the peak of what you can do.”But, ever-respectful, Miller realizes that he has just insulted the card traders and hurriedly adds, “I’m sure if I sat down and tried it, it would be fun. But it’s something...
Chip Conley, the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, which operates 40 boutique hotels and other properties, exemplifies San Francisco smarts in Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Conley's company was almost wiped out by the post-9/11 downturn. But the theories of renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow provided "mouth-to-mouth resuscitation," says Conley, a Stanford M.B.A. (In miniature: Maslow believed that as their basic needs are met, human beings and companies are able to strive for higher goals.) Despite a few New Age-y concepts like "karmic capitalism" and a tendency...
...families I know are being forced out because they can’t afford [to stay],” he said. “My focus in this election is to affect the peak middle-income families out there...