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...selling a family jewel, Samuel I. ("Si") Newhouse Jr., chairman of Random House's parent company, Advance Publications, proved that he could read a market as well as a book. And publishing is not a pretty story. Costs have been skyrocketing in a market shaken by high advances, torpid sales and power struggles with superstore book chains. In a statement, Newhouse said the company had reached a "decision to focus its efforts on the management and expansion of its core business of newspapers, magazines, business journals and cable...
Boosted by its TV brand name and backed by parent Walt Disney Co., ESPN is guaranteeing advertisers an initial circulation of 350,000 and hopes to reach 2 million in five years, vs. SI's 3.15 million. Not that anyone is keeping score yet. The goal isn't to grab SI readers, says ESPN editor in chief John Papenek: "We're thinking about all those people who don't read a sports magazine." SI has added pictures and short news items up front, but managing editor Bill Colson says he "would have done it regardless of ESPN's appearance...
WASHINGTON: The people in the House say Si. By the narrowest of margins -- a single vote -- the House of Representatives voiced its approval Wednesday night for a plebiscite that may turn Puerto Rico into the 51st state. More importantly, they did it without any bill-killing riders such as a clause making English the official language of the United States -- a suggestion from Rep. Gerald Solomon that seemed calculated to offend the Spanish-speaking commonwealth. ?I?m extremely excited,? said Puerto Rico?s only congressional delegate, Carlos Romero-Barcelo...
...third book of his Confessions, Augustine offers a penetrating observation on the nature of compassion. He writes, "si enim est malivola benivolentia, quod fieri non potest, potest et ille, qui veraciter sinceriterque miseretur, cupere esse miseros, ut misereatur" (it is only if there could be a malevolent benevolence--which is impossible--that a man who truly and sincerely felt compassion would desire that there be wretched men so that he could bemoan them...
JESSE HELMS Senator No won't say si to former Governor Weld. So, Bill, how do you say hardball in Spanish...