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Bumper stickers and stadium banners proclaim BRUCE--THE RAMBO OF ROCK! "In the midst of a lot of music about love, he's a spokesman for patriotism," says Larry Berger, program director of New York City's powerful WPLJ-FM. "He's the Ronald Reagan of rock 'n' roll." In fact, the only thing Springsteen has in common with Stallone's marauding murder machine is a bandanna around the forehead; and the one time the President tried to cut himself in on Boss territory ("America's future rests ... in the message of hope in songs of ... New Jersey...
Doomsayers proclaim that the newspaper business is dying, as readers get older and youngsters fail to pick up the newspaper habit. But Doug McCorkindale sees it differently. Next month the 34-year veteran of Gannett Co. steps down as CEO; he remains chairman for another year. Reflecting on his long involvement with the nation's largest newspaper publisher (which owns more than 100 dailies, including flagship USA Today), McCorkindale spoke with TIME's BARBARA KIVIAT about the prospects of a company that gets 68% of its revenue from newspaper ads and 18% from paid circulation...
...part because her niece, a lawyer, changed hers. "She felt that her generation of women didn't have to do the same things mine did, because of what we had already achieved," Goldin says. "They would uphold all the ideals of gender equality but didn't have to proclaim it with their surname." In other words, women had come far enough that names didn't matter...
...star's desperation not to proclaim his love but to be loved? "Once you get to the 'I want you to like me' phase," says Josh Baran, a crisis-management p.r. consultant, "then you are lost in confusion. Because now, not only do people not like you, but they think you are creepy and weird. It becomes a caricature, a pathology, and that is what we seem to have now with celebrities like Tom Cruise. You sell your soul to get people to love...
King Hassan went on to proclaim that "through their feelings and minds, those absent are with us all the same." But the truth was that the deep splits between radical and moderate states that have virtually paralyzed the Arab League for years were as evident as ever. Said Moroccan Foreign Minister Abdellatif Filali: "Maybe this is the end of the Arab League...