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...November was a yearning for comfort culture after the Sept. 11 attacks, so this May is as much a test of Osama bin Laden's continuing legacy as Cosby's. "It's probably an oversimplification," says Zucker, "but the country seems to want to look back at an easier, simpler time." At least it did then, when U.S. planes were pounding Afghanistan and Americans were opening their utility bills with latex gloves. Now it may be the networks who are hankering for an easier, simpler time. Sept. 11 caused a brief return to their glory days, as viewers swelled...
...Granted, I was in school long before Columbine - and while things were not perfect back then, they were a lot simpler, in many ways. Teachers were more worried about students skipping classes than about any one of us whipping out a semi-automatic weapon and gunning down our classmates. Most of the time, just showing up was good enough, and whether you spent the interim time doodling was kind of beside the point...
...freakishly ambitious or they do so many mind-altering drugs to soothe their bored brains that they no longer have any idea how long a week actually is. I gave him one more shot at the fun question. "It should be a fun time to get back to the simpler pleasures in life that we ignore but are more basic pleasures," he said. I finally understood that Frank was talking about...
...freakishly ambitious or they do so many mind-altering drugs to soothe their bored brains that they no longer have any idea how long a week actually is. I gave him one more shot at the fun question. "It should be a fun time to get back to the simpler pleasures in life that we ignore but are more basic pleasures," he said. I finally understood that Frank was talking about...
...there is a trend away from conglomerates, there is a distaste for them because there is a lack of clarity and transparency, and they often fail to deliver diversification benefits," says Steve Russell, U.K. strategist at HSBC Investment Bank. Corporations are focusing on core businesses because pure plays are simpler for analysts and shareholders to understand...