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...found a job at the San Antonio Express-News; on April 18 the paper published her story about Juanita Anguiano, the mother of a missing soldier from Los Fresnos, Texas. Blair's article about Anguiano landed on the front page of the Times eight days later. Both were moving, vivid portraits of a mother's love and loss. But only one was original. "He stole her story," says Express-News editor Robert Rivard, who wrote to Howell Raines, executive editor of the New York Times, asking him to look into the matter...
...writes Larry Selden, a Columbia Business School professor, and Geoffrey Colvin, FORTUNE's senior editor at large, in their book Angel Customers & Demon Customers, which hits stores in early June. Business people have always known that some customers aren't worth the trouble. Now Selden and Colvin show, through vivid examples, how much companies can gain by comprehensively tracking and examining the costs and benefits of each customer relationship. (Fidelity, for instance, puts burdensome callers at the end of a long holding queue and gives quick attention to account holders who deliver more profit...
...this war was not the heroic struggle that was engaged in to defeat Hitler in World War II." A Tokyo reader agreed, saying, "To equate the fall of Saddam with that of Hitler is an insult to the millions slaughtered by the Nazis." But one Canadian put it in vivid sports terms: "Comparing Hussein with Hitler is like comparing a minor-league hockey player with the all-time great Wayne Gretzky...
...word, "titbaghdada," used to imply snobbishness. But today, Baghdad is neglected. There is no sanitation and there are no garbage cans on the street, so waste is tossed generously throughout. The entire city is coated with a sandy yellowish film, deposited by dust storms and left unwashed. The most vivid color comes from the brilliant red sunsets that shimmer on the water and the mosque domes...
...It’s entirely a reference point for my own life,” he says. “Arts were so exhilarating and were such a chance to experiment. They made my life so much more vivid and exciting...