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...television superstar graces the cover, as she plans to do for every issue in the foreseeable future. Inside the 318-page premiere issue (including 166 pages of ads) is a literary experience consistent with The Oprah Winfrey Show, with the daily outpourings of emotion transposed into the more staid mode of confessional narrative. Tale after tale records the triumphs of women (ordinary women, mostly; who needs celebrities when you have Oprah?) over poverty, traumas, racism, even sexual commodification. One article offers the inspiring story of a model who found happiness by going into business for herself designing china. Another...
What Blair needs to do is to get with his own program. A self-cast sensitive '90s man, Blair is known as the electric guitar player who reinvented Labour from a staid party of yesteryear to a modern force to be reckoned with. It was his own government that just passed a law which allows fathers up to 13 weeks of unpaid paternity leave during the first five years of each of their children's lives. With Booth already earning an estimated three times her husband's salary, Blair's missed paycheck should little affect the family's pocketbook...
...same way that the bold frontiersmen of the 19th-century gold rush were different from the era's staid urban patriarchs, today's American college graduates differ from their parents as they take their place in the "modern gold rush" economy. According to a report from CNN, an increasing number of college seniors are turning to the here-today, gone-tomorrow Internet world for post-graduation jobs, rather than exploring "safer" alternatives in advertising, banking and the law. Like the economy, today's graduates are a different breed than their predecessors. Unlike their parents, who sought long-term jobs...
...economy, P&G has to move faster. The hard-charging Dutchman, who started the job a year ago, has unleashed a plan to get ideas from lab to market in two years instead of the typical five to 10. He's also trying to jazz up the staid P&G ads of the past, which scientifically compared the benefits of Pampers or Bounty with those of Brand X. Jager wants what he calls a softer, more "right-brain selling approach...
...STRANGE JUSTICE (SHOWTIME) Historical TV movies must be staid. They must tie up loose ends. Above all, they must take no artistic risks. Showtime's Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas docudrama broke all those rules, telling the Rashomon tale that launched the he-said-she-said decade with arresting images and a stubborn refusal to take sides...