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...morning Metro boasts advertising growth just shy of 10%. "We're bucking the trend," Auckland says. With the same aim, thelondonpaper is striving to accommodate advertisers. Expect circular ads smack in the middle of an editorial page, says Steve Goodman, managing director of print trading at London media buying firm GroupM. Goodman does worry that the evening crowd is getting thick and that London Lite could damage its corporate brethren. Two evening giveaways means the Standard is "obviously going to be losing some circulation," he says. But that's not guaranteed bad news. The Standard "gives you far more lengthy...
What explains those wonderfully unpredictable findings? The College Board has no firm answers, but its top researcher, Wayne Camara, suggests a (somewhat self-serving) theory: the new SAT is less coachable. When designing the new test, the board banned analogies and "quantitative comparisons" (flummoxing math questions that asked you to compare two complex quantities). "I think those items disadvantaged students who did not have the resources, the motivation, the awareness to figure out how to approach them," says Camara. "By eliminating those, the test becomes much less about strategy." Because it focuses more on what high schools teach and less...
...deep roots or had no financial means," he says. He does worry about the next storm, of course. "If there's another storm, I'll rethink, but I owe the city one more shot," Petrie says. In the meantime, he's one of those "speculators" investing in New Orleans, firm in his belief that property values will be back in three to five years...
...Historically, when Mormon leaders have been jailed or hidden as has happened twice in the past, it has unified members and enhanced the stature of the leaders. The view is that a leader who remains firm and resolute in his beliefs despite serious consequences to himself is a leader to look...
...board undertakes an internal strategic review. Earlier this summer, Ford hired Citigroup and investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to advise the struggling automaker, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. Rubin worked at Goldman Sachs for 26 years, including two years as co-chairman of the firm, before leaving to join the Clinton administration in 1993. He served as Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999—when he was succeeded by his protégé Summers—and he then went to work for Goldman Sachs’ rival, Citigroup. Rubin joined Ford?...