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...Itoh (sales: $151 billion) already manages cable firms, runs sports and music channels and owns a 40% stake in two communications satellites. But that still leaves it plenty of room to grow in Japan, where only 18% of the households are wired for cable -- most of them in rural areas with poor regular-TV reception. "Cable is going to be a big business here, but it will develop slowly," says Mitsuhiro Kitabatake, a top C. Itoh corporate planner...
Similarly indignant questions are being echoed all over Louisiana. In the thick piney woods near Mansfield, in the rural, Protestant north, Duke recently gave some 150 white partisans at a local V.F.W. hall his well- modulated litany of how an inept government and its wasteful social programs are taking advantage of law-abiding middle-class folks. "There is no bigger problem we have in Louisiana and in the country than the rising welfare underclass," he told them. "We're never going to have fiscal reform in Louisiana until we have welfare reform...
...Cajuns are as different from New Orleanians as New Orleanians are from Protestants in the rural north. Yet all Louisianians share something that sets them apart -- at least in their own minds -- from other Americans. They are bound, in the words of Bill Lynch, a former newspaperman who now serves as the state's inspector general, "by our unforgiving history." It is a paradoxical chronicle of political corruption and roguishness, of fabulous oil wealth and red-clay poverty, of exile and immigration, cultural blending and racial divides...
Normal people, beginning their careers, often plan toward what they hope to be doing in 20 years. But journalists aren't that normal -- and besides, how could Barrett Seaman have known in October 1971 that he would spend his 20th anniversary with our company in rural Wise County, Va., watching Oliver North, the ramrod Marine who mesmerized America during the 1987 Iran-contra hearings, campaign for Republican candidates? But for Barry, who excerpted North's autobiography, Under Fire, for this week's issue, getting a close-up look at the author in action was critical to understanding his enduring appeal...
That year Quasha made one of his worst investments, paying $36 million (probably twice its real worth) for E-Z Serve, a stodgy owner of gas pumps at 900 rural service stations and convenience stores. It suffered every travail from management infighting to IRS audits to environmental disasters. Seven states have cited E-Z Serve for soil or groundwater contamination...