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Hence, Wal-Mart is well stocked in inconsistencies. South Park, the cartoon television series and recent movie, features a funny but foulmouthed cast of characters and an infinite collection of toilet jokes. The South Park video game got to the shelves but not the film. Reason: Wal-Mart's game buyer figured that customers who purchase it are already familiar with the characters. The video buyer, on the other hand, believed that customers associate animated films with movies such as Bambi and not with Cartman and his profane pals. (No doubt the boys would have joyously killed and consumed Bambi...
Citigroup's specialized private banking division, which has 40,000 clients, each holding more than $3 million in assets, has produced a wealth of headaches in recent years. And this week's migraine could be especially severe for John Reed, Citigroup's co-chairman. He's being hauled before the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to explain the bank's oversight of accounts controlled by a gallery of international reprobates and dictators. All kept tidy sums in Citi vaults; some of it was rightfully theirs...
Downing, meanwhile, canceled all future revenue-sharing deals with Staples, promised to review all contracts with advertisers, and ordered up "awareness training" for the ad side. Yet in an interview with TIME last Thursday, some defensiveness seemed to be creeping back. She cited a recent Boston Globe report pointing out that promotional ties and revenue sharing are becoming more widespread at newspapers. "It makes me feel better to know it's a common industry practice," says Downing. "What I did was unfortunate. It was a mistake. I feel badly about the cloud it has put--for a little while--over...
...commune and more committed than a swingers' group--though polyamorists insist on the prerogative of each family to set its own rules about fidelity, as long as everyone is honest. Polies tend to be an exceedingly earnest bunch, and many describe what they practice as "responsible nonmonogamy." During a recent Loving More conference, an organizer pointedly noted that "Loving More does not mean 'f______ more...
...sprinkles," says the 51-year-old husband. "But it's more." The couple have a son Matthew who's 21 and in college. Matthew thinks that what has happened to April, Chris and Shane is awful. "My experience with having 'extra' parents was quite positive," he wrote in a recent e-mail. As a teenager, he had begun to suspect that his mother was having an affair. "To then find out that she was but that it was an approved activity was entirely a relief... It only seemed natural...