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Lambert comes at rowing as a reporter and an athlete. He is up-front about this, mentioning in the book that he covered rowing for various magazine before returning to the sport, such as Sports Illustrated, Town & Country and Harvard Magazine, where he is currently an editor. His expertise is an asset in his eye for detail and his intelligent description. There is no doubt that he is an experienced rower, knowledgeable and passionate about the sport. Lambert explains the basics as well as the nuances of rowing in straightforward terms that provide a solid introduction to the sport...
Celebrities who issue bonds are essentially borrowing money and paying it back through future royalties. So the loan--the up-front money--is free of income tax and in fact can generate a tax deduction: forfeiting royalties is partly an interest expense, deductible if the loan is used for investment. Once the bonds mature, the celebs retain ownership of the property that generated the royalties. If the royalties are greater than expected, the bonds get retired early. So the celebrities get all the upside...
...about $65 apiece. Because each store has 10,000 tapes, the inventory got expensive, thus limiting the company's willingness to invest in too many copies of one film. Now Blockbuster has revenue-sharing deals with all but a couple of major studios. The deals dramatically lower Blockbuster's up-front costs to about $6 a tape. In exchange, Blockbuster hands over roughly 40% of rental revenue...
...very up-front about being gay," he said. "He really wanted to be an example to students who were gay, but also to students who weren...
...Sure, it's a different newspaper than it was in 1984. Yet since then the Herald has nine times picked off a Pulitzer, a prize supposedly indicative of quality. Probably no region in America sees more demographic upheaval than Miami does, and the Herald addresses it up-front and openly. That means taking risks. Some work: El Nuevo Herald, our Spanish-language counterpart, now has a daily print run of 110,000. Some don't work: we now staff Managua rather than New York City. Dealing with change is what journalism is all about. Forget the "shell" game. GENE MILLER...