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...flagship magazine. Ad revenue dropped 54% in the first quarter, and over the past 18 months the magazine has lost about 500,000, or 22%, of its subscribers. In an impassioned statement delivered outside the New York City courthouse where she heard her sentence, Stewart made a sales pitch on behalf of her "beloved company." Standing in a sober black suit with her daughter Alexis behind her, she thanked fans for sending thousands of letters and e-mail messages and asked them to show their support by "subscribing to our magazine, by buying our products, by encouraging our advertisers...
...South Korean company; Iraqna, a subsidiary of Egyptian conglomerate Orascom; and Bestseller, a Danish apparel company. Each contract is worth between $300,000 and $550,000. The N.O.C.I. has reached out to U.S. companies with less success. A delegation met with Nike and Motorola in April. "It was the pitch from hell," says Hayder al-Fekaiki, director of IraqiSport, a London-based start-up that the N.O.C.I. hired to help negotiate its sponsorship deals. He cited the unfortunate timing: insurgents had just dragged dead contractors through Fallujah. Neither company signed pacts...
Joining Hendricks on Yakima’s roster is former Princeton fireballer Ross Ohlendorf, the fourth-round selection of the Diamondbacks. Ohlendorf, however, joined the team late after signing just this week and has yet to pitch...
...office in a dicey part of the city near Tahrir Square. And when he does go to work, he encounters grim suffering he never expected to see. On a recent weekday a woman, swathed head to toe in a black aba, tugs her wailing child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach the office, a dim, dingy room with a desk, a sink, a scale and an ancient examination table covered by a dusty black cloth. Everything in the once fine clinic...
...piano-pounding rocker on a pop album due in October. Shatner's first record, a 1968 spoken-word effort that became an icon of classic camp, earned him Folds' respect--and a duet on the hipster's 1998 album. Now cerebral crooners like Aimee Mann and Henry Rollins will pitch in on Shatner's CD. "Ben told me to tell the truth," says Shatner, who wrote most of the lyrics. "I hope it's musically valid." The record's title does suggest a refreshing honesty--it's called Has Been...