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...Death's paperboy has been tossing a lot of venerable titles onto the porch of history recently. The 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the 149-year-old Rocky Mountain News are gone. Dozens more are shadows of their former selves, their revenues and resources gutted by the flight of classifieds, the gasping economy and the hordes of websites competing for readers' attention. The best that most print publishers can do is try to slow the drain-circling while frantically figuring out how to make money on the Web. This means cutbacks, layoffs, misery. (See the 10 most endangered...
...like Dave and Micki Moray, it's not the same. Every day they'd come home from work - he as a manager and she as a nurse at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital - pick up the paper, take it to the back porch and read. Dave, 58, was a News paperboy. The couple sold and bought cars for themselves and their daughters through the classifieds. The Morays are employed, active, avowed news junkies and won't read a newspaper online, because it feels like work. "We're not against change. But just to have the rug pulled from under us like...
...most Harvard students didn’t notice, let alone vote. We just don’t seem to want to engage with the Cambridge community, and one alum, identity unknown, has decided to fight the problem using Doordropped’s favorite weapon: the press. Namely, the covert paperboy (or girl!) has been buying up hundreds of copies of Cambridge Chronicle, a weekly community newspaper, and delivering them to all Harvard dorms. The first time the paper appeared in our quarters, the stacks were accompanied by a short note promising students free copies until the end of the school...
...places our hardworking ad guy, Barry, told advertisers the magazine would be delivered. Those to whom the business staff felt like delivering the What? seemed to enjoy it. A word of advice: don’t ever hire anyone with an SAT score greater than 1400 to be a paperboy...
...Fonda, then for Whoopi Goldberg (though the film wasn't made), then they asked him to direct Sister Act, First Wives Club, Runaway Bride and, he says, "anything with drag queens." But though he hopes to make a film soon in Florida, based on Pete Dexter's novel The Paperboy, Almodovar's roots are deep in the Iberian psyche. He has never filmed outside Spain. Indeed, he hadn't shot outside Madrid until he made All About My Mother, set mostly in Barcelona...