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There's no shortage of advertisers trying to reach the Polish market. Banks, mobile-phone providers and companies like Western Union all seem to grasp the appeal of immigrant readers, many of whom are upwardly mobile and ready to show it with their wallets...
Officials at NASN, now run by the Disney-owned U.S. sports boss ESPN--which bought the independent European channel from Irish broadcaster Setanta Sports and venture-capital group Benchmark Capital Europe in 2006 for a reported $120�million--say their goal is to reach 100�million households in Europe, surpassing espn's 93�million subscribers in the U.S. The last person to call such an ambitious shot may have been Babe Ruth, but NASN executives say they've tapped into a growing demographic of European sports fans who no longer consider American baseball, football, college basketball or even NASCAR exotic...
...just won't do it." Or maybe here: "Telling Americans what they think they want to hear instead of telling the American people what they need to hear just won't do it." And yet he ended on a soaring note: "In this election - at this moment - let us reach for what we know is possible. A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again...
...locus for dissent between intellectual elites and the hoi polloi. You either get it or you don’t, the conventional wisdom says, and neither side of the divide wants much to do with the other.Except for Alex Ross, that is. His book manages not just to reach across the vast chasm between classical and popular music, but also to make the distance seem shorter, the depth of the chasm shallower, and the passage across easier. He told a reporter for The New York Observer last month that “the whole point...
...fitting if somewhat sad note. “Fight and you’ll never survive / Run and you’ll never escape / So just fall from grace,” raps Jay, pulling the listener down from the highs the album’s middle tracks reach. Like a spike to the vein, “American Gangster” lulls the listener with its sultry samples, hits a peak, then comes to a shuddering halt. Along the way, Jay-Z taunts, jokes, recollects, and even spits some thought-provoking shit. Most importantly, however, Jay proves that...