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Jada's Soul Fool.
Did I ever tell you about the time I went to Jada's Soul Food ? I went with Nichole and JM who write this blog where they are going to every sin…
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"i think its totally awesome but the guy talks about money and making a living too much."
"sounds like he does this for money more than as his passion and thats really sad because this looks like an awesome place." That comment ,…
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Conservative authors sue the parent of Regnery Publishing over its deep-discount book club scheme.
The NYT reports. As if Regnery would have all those big best-sellers if they sold their tracts at full cover price in bookstores. Who are the plain…
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"HBO’s would-be minders are experts in distribution systems and profit margins who know little or nothing about the ego-fueled dramas that help put the show in show business."
"Will these telecommunications executives be able to put up with the producers, directors and stars whose work gave the network 29 Emmys last ye…
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"To say you can’t improve scores is to say you can’t improve students, and I disagree with that."
Said Stanley Kaplan, dead now, at 90. He began by preparing students for the New York State Regents exams. But when a student showed up in 1946 askin…
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How Jerry Weintraub solved the problem of 5,000 unsold tickets to an Elvis concert.
And the one thing Elvis could not tolerate was playing to an empty seat. (Via Deadline Hollywood .)
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"It will not only put Murdoch’s Fox sale in a whole new light, but may also raise questions about the future viability of Hulu, plus any platform enjoying what’s pejoratively known as 'Hollywood accounting.'"
I'm reading "Fox Rocked by $179M 'Bones' Ruling: Lying, Cheating and 'Reprehensible' Studio Fraud" (Hollywood Reporter…
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"Tumbling oil prices are draining hundreds of billions of dollars from the coffers of oil-rich exporters and oil companies..."
"... and injecting a much-needed boost for ailing economies in Europe and Japan — and for American consumers at the start of the peak shopping s…
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Entrepreneurship is really cute.
Ginia Bellfante writes about the Olsen twins, who may seem like tiny, empty celebrities who don't work, but actually have an impressive fashion …
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One tuna fish, sold for $1,763,000.
It weighed 489 pounds, which is $3,603 a pound. Sliver it into nearly weightless sashimi, and presumably customers won't choke on the price.
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"As much as anything, the Facebook deal is a concession by Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. that the paper's app strategy failed to produce the turnaround the company hoped for."
"Now the Times is throwing its fate into Facebook's hands."
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Arianna says "the lawsuit completely ignores... how new media... have changed the game, enabling millions of people to shift their focus from passive observation to active participation — from couch potato to self-expression."
"Writing blogs, sending tweets, updating your Facebook page, editing photos, uploading videos, and making music are options made possible by new…
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"There are also voice coaches who teach how to speak like a woman without sounding like Mrs. Doubtfire..."
"... or how to speak like a man without sounding like a bad impersonation of Johnny Depp. Kathe Perez, a speech pathologist in Denver, has built…
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The internet is taking the profit out of pornography.
At first, it looked as thought the internet was going to help the business, but it hasn't worked out that way . Too many amateurs are giving porn…
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"Your average Dylan fan could be excused for not knowing about a new European compilation called The Copyright Extension Collection Vol. 1."
"Only 100 of these four-CD sets even exist, and they've been shipped to a tiny number of stores located in Germany, France, Sweden, and Brit…
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Let's welcome Amazon to the digital music sales business.
No copy protection? Great. Let's have a response from iTunes and -- my favorite -- Audible.com. ADDED: And, yes, I know iTunes has a deal to avo…
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"New Tricks for Old Malls... Gun Ranges, Aquariums, Go-Carts."
The WSJ reports: Jin Dong, the manager of a Mattress Giant store that shares a wall with the Arms Room, is one of the gun range's happy neighbors…
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"Our prescribed drugs do extra duty as political sedatives."
Frederick C. Crews looks at the dynamics of "Big Pharma." [T]he pharmaceutical companies haven't so much answered a need as turbocharg…
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