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...news for you." Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, quoting from a letter that will tell shareholders his succession plan after he dies "We have to sell our oil. We cannot drink it." Saleh Mansour Al Rajhy, Saudi ambassador to South Korea, arguing that fears of runaway oil prices are overblown "The average E.U. cow receives more than $2 a day in support from governments. That is more than the income of half the world's population." Julian Filochowski, director of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, on farm subsidies
...Star You The short unhappy history of online advertising may be about to take a popular turn. Anheuser-Busch Cos. is launching an online ad campaign that allows viewers to create virtual personalities (or "veepers") and email them around to friends. The campaign could turn out to be a runaway online hit, but critics worry that underage folks might be the unintended audience...
...Iraq is like a runaway freight train loaded with explosives barreling toward us." BOB DOLE, former Senate Majority Leader, on the necessity of confronting Iraq...
...reason: the networks tried creativity last year and got burned. Critics touted Fox's form-breaking CIA serial 24 as last fall's runaway hit, and it was--among critics. The networks took other risks--Alias, Scrubs--but not a single new show became a breakout hit. So broadcast execs retrenched. In July, at an annual TV reporters' meeting in Pasadena, Calif., they said flatly that they're programming not for critics, who prize innovation and surprises, but for ordinary folks, who want to veg out after a stressful day with something familiar and comforting but slightly less harmful than...
There's a saying among recovering alcoholics about how addiction reinforces itself: "The man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man ..." One wonders if the abduction reports are a runaway habit whose internal momentum can get the best of reporters and editors, flattening everything else that lies before it: stories of war and preparations for war, of corruption among the elites, of floods and droughts. What, no kidnapped kids this morning? Well, find some...