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...have a lot of money to spend in a short period of time and are desperate both for information and to communicate with lots of people at once. It was the perfect thing for a tired industry. The bridal world hadn't changed in 20 years. Friends wouldn't touch bridal magazines because they were full of icky poufy sleeves. So we thought we would use the Internet to fundamentally change the business of planning a wedding...
...wanted the Knot to deal with the stuff that traditional media companies wouldn't touch. They would never write about a Jewish girl bringing home a Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...
Having gone 0 for 8 with Democratic presidential candidates, political consultant Bob Shrum is exporting his golden touch as an adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Sept. 24, Brown delivered an address that bore Shrum's fingerprints, including phrases strikingly similar to those in speeches by former clients Bill Clinton and Al Gore. And true to form, Brown's Labour Party promptly dropped in the polls...
...early in the first half when his strike to the far post found the net. “They played a square ball,” Hoff said. “The kid mishit it, and I just intercepted it about 25 yards out and took a good first touch and shot it lower-left corner.” Fittingly, Hoff’s goal, his second of the season, was scored on Senior Day. Playing in their last regular-season game at Ohiri Field, Hoff and co-captain Adam Hahn, the only two seniors on this year?...
...critics like Lisa Graybill, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union's Texas Chapter. "Preventing harassment and teaching kids to respect each other is important, but having yet another reason for kids' behavior to be criminalized is unnecessary," she says. "It's draconian to ban all forms of touch...