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...biggest gaffe of all, of course, would be if he took heed of the President’s daughters’ revelation at this year’s Republican Convention that their parents call each other “Bushy.” Although this name may endearingly refer to their famous last name, I would go out on a limb and say it’s not the most flattering adjective your boyfriend could...
...mass market, freebies need to be [editorially] neutral," says Jo Groebel, director general of the Dortmund-based European Institute for the Media. Stripped of ideological or political bias, Metro lacks personality, insists Peter Cole, a professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield: "People don't refer to it as 'my Metro.'" As a basic, quick news service, it's only "like switching on the radio news on the hour," Cole says. Of course, the dumbing-down debate has been around as long as newspapers themselves. "Free papers reach a broad cross section of the population," points out Ingela Wadbring...
...Cellar—and his beautiful and uncannily accurate portrait of Quinten—fast-forwards me to this year, inviting me to reminisce over all the fun nights out I’ve had with all the people whom I’ll soon have to refer to wistfully as “my college friends...
...home. The new residence is home to Patricia's p.r. agency and Kim's race-car-building business. It's also a place where family and friends can visit and take a gander at the extensive trove of antiques and collectibles the couple have acquired over the years. They refer to their home, unabashedly, as the "New American Castle"--moat not included...
...that's changing. Empty nesters increasingly view the housing market--even with a recent hike in federal interest rates--as a safe bet. For them, the term boomer might as well refer to housing boomers, who are building their own personal retirement homes instead of parking the cash in the stock market. "These people have the desire--and the money--to trade in the house that they lived in for 30 or 40 years and move into a home that has all the bells and whistles they've ever imagined," says Leslie Marks, executive director of the National Association...