Word: sterne
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...Cruise brilliantly. As a Mission Impossible hero and a Collateral villain, he got audiences to feel the pleasure he took in being watched. And as an interview subject, he took care to be amiable but reveal little. Now he's playing the impulsive adolescent and the dispenser of stern advice. He slammed doctors for giving kids Ritalin and criticized Brooke Shields, the star of Cruise's first film (Endless Love, 1981), for her brief dependence on prescription drugs. Her response: "Tom should stick to saving the world from aliens and let women who are experiencing postpartum depression decide what treatment...
...simply ambushed them with shifting demands. Police say they'd been privately raising these concerns for months before their official report. And public watchdogs say the finger-pointing itself is symptomatic of the real problem. "There's a confidence problem here, but it's not about security," says Nikki Stern, executive director of the Families of September 11. "It's about leadership...
...gone on a cruise [before easyCruise]," says South. "This has opened barriers for people like us." Great; just as long as nobody expects luxury at low prices. Forget deck quoits, pink gins and white-jacketed stewards. The only extra on this voyage is a small jacuzzi perched at the stern of the ship. The trip costs as little as $50 a night, but food and drink aren't included and most cabins are windowless. And they're orange. Orange is everywhere. In the furniture, fixtures and staff uniforms. In the Sports Bar, bartenders struggle to lip-read orders...
Karmazin concedes that he didn't foresee the potential of satellite radio and raised doubts about its viability as a business model. Just a week before being named CEO of Sirius, he told a broadcasters' conference in Portugal that while Stern made a "brilliant" deal for himself, "the jury is out on whether or not it is good for anybody else." To the old guard at Sirius, Karmazin certainly seemed like a saboteur. "They thought my agenda was to hold back satellite radio," he says of talks he had with Sirius in 2003 about a link with Viacom. What changed...
...that Sirius has announced but hasn't launched. Another edge: XM's reported subscriber-acquisition costs of $62, vs. $177 for Sirius in 2004 (Sirius expects the cost to drop to less than $145 for 2005). XM chief Hugh Panero says he can't rationalize signing a star like Stern. "What we do is look at the long-term economics of the programming," he says. "We're less concerned about the p.r. bang of an announcement...