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...LIKE A LOT OF Americans, you're in the second week of a New Year's resolution to lose weight. You may have even found a diet you think will do the trick. Chances are, alas, that the minute you stop dieting--and who can deprive themselves forever?--you'll find it practically impossible to keep the weight off. But that's no reason to give up and consume a box of Krispy Kremes. If you're serious about shedding pounds, your best bet is to forget about dieting and make some permanent changes--the kind you can live with...
...startled, on the amazing "Blue Moon," by his trick of shifting, in a heartbeat, from saloon baritone to pants-too-tight wailing. We are reminded of his daring enunciation: all those words that suddenly began with h ("Hi want you, hi need you, hi-hi-hi love you"), the occasional glottal addition ("Glove me tender...") and his near Hawaiian avoiding of consonants ("Ya-hoo A-know Ah can be fou'/ Sittin' home all alo'"). That's from "Don't Be Cruel," a song that comes close to redefining the art of the pop vocal. It's gentle and amused, with...
...certify that five percent of its beans are Fair Trade), but to encourage them to offer more Fair Trade products. If Fair Trade were on brew every time I opened my cup, I would drink it. Regular Fair Trade purchases and suggestion box comments will do the trick, because rather than a movement of noise-making, this is a movement of expressing consumer interest—the companies are there, after all, to meet consumer needs. Coffee addicts of America, carry on with Fair Trade love...
...wiretaps and other material produced evidence of a conspiracy in which a few families agreed to carve up the garment-industry trucking business among themselves. The trick was bringing a case. There was evidence of extortion, Spitzer recalls, but it was ambiguous, and cases like this had failed in the past. So he charged the Gambinos with something that could stick, an antitrust violation. Thomas and Joseph Gambino and two other defendants took the deal and avoided jail by pleading guilty, paying $12 million in fines and agreeing to stay out of the business. "It was imaginative and smart," says...
...complete calls and therefore were not capital outlays but operating costs, which should be expensed in full each year. It was as if an ordinary person had paid his phone bills but written down the payments as if he were building a phone tower in his backyard. The trick allowed WorldCom to turn a $662 million loss into a $2.4 billion profit...