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...People who physically read newspapers read a lot more than online,” she said. “The internet complements the physical newspaper.” Maghran said that USA Today would also handle delivery, signs, and ID card-readers that would restrict newspaper pick-up to Harvard students. —Staff writer Alex M. McLeese can be reached at amcleese@fas.harvard.edu...
...would you compare the industry now to when you were first getting started?It was different then. It was a lot more spontaneous. Kids were coming to the city-beautiful girls, good looking guys-and they'd sell themselves around town, hoping someone would pick them up and give them a six-month studio contract. It seems much more calculated now. Not to mention television. Television just eats up everything. You can have a career start over the weekend on television...
...options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and time - linked to the S&P 500. As the value of that index plummets - the leading benchmark of U.S. stocks has lost about a third of its value this year - investors are scrambling to pick up options in order to hedge against those losses. That, in turn, drives up option prices, as well as the VIX. In other words, the higher fear levels get, the more the volatility index rises. (The reverse is true, too: when U.S. stocks rallied sharply Oct. 13 in response to plans...
...smile, but a scene in which Ian talks to a toddler while dressed like a donut with an erection is less successful. The good news is that after an hour or so of painfully rehashed teen movie clichés, “Sex Drive” begins to pick up. When all the characters and events leading up to Knoxville come together, Ian and Lance finally develop some personality beyond the two-dimensional, and some good laughs are in store after Ian meets Miss Tasty. Although not particularly memorable along the way, “Sex Drive?...
...McCain's benighted handlers had been stuck too deep in the Rovian mud to pick up on that. But in the days just before the debate, McCain returned to the acceptable boundaries of presidential politics with a punchy new stump speech that was plenty critical of Obama but critical on matters of substance, not inference. Obama would raise taxes. He would spend too much. He would "concede defeat in Iraq." And then, in a perfect valedictory to his career, McCain said, "I'm an American. And I choose to fight." It is impossible to say what McCain's fate would...