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...people in 1,000 read a paid-for daily paper - compared to a European average of around 250 - according to Bertrand Pecquerie, director of the Paris-based World Editors Forum. Distributed in nine Spanish cities, 20 Minutos - the local title of Schibsted's giveaway - is aimed at the vast majority of Spaniards who don't pay for a daily paper. "If a reader sees something that really interests him and he wants to know more, then he can pay for a paper for more in-depth coverage," insists José Antonio Martínez Soler, director general of 20 Minutos...
...made his pile, wishes to abandon his life of crime and start hanging about at posh country clubs. But prosperous as he is, he is still only middle management in the criminal pastry shop. He has obligations to his masters, chief of which is to help them recover a vast shipment of ecstasy pills that have gone missing somewhere between Amsterdam and London. This story line is essentially incomprehensible in its complexity. Mostly what one observes about it is that from time to time, not-very-nice people get dead in a variety of not-very-nice ways. Having...
When I bought a new car equipped with Sirius satellite radio, I had no idea how the technology would alter my sense of the passing American landscape. With its clear, unvarying signal, which seems to arrive from a spot beyond the moon, and its vast profusion of music, news and talk shows, the medium places you at the center of everything, even when you're in the middle of nowhere. The problem is that the center of everything is not an actual, inhabitable place but a floating media mirage, an invisible digital bubble of information located somewhere in the fifth...
...Saturday at St. Peter's Basilica. For the first two beatifications of his papacy, Benedict is not only moving the proceedings indoors but also delegating the task to an underling. After Pope John Paul II turned beatifications into major events by presiding over each ceremony, often in front of vast crowds in St. Peter's Square, Benedict is reverting to having the Mass led by a designated Cardinal or bishop, which will probably garner less attention from the world's faithful. Some church observers wonder if, after the two beatifications scheduled for May 14, the Pope may begin to slow...
Friedman and the mayor, it seems, both ensnare themselves in exceedingly sunny optimism by limiting their focus one-dimensionally to economics. Though many theorists recognize globalization as at least partially a political and cultural phenomenon, Friedman devotes the vast majority of “The World Is Flat” to business, corporate management, and technological innovation...