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...produce great television. So Jacobs supplanted them with corporations such as GM's Chevrolet division, M&M/Mars, 7-Up and Fujifilm, which wouldn't blink at, say, a $10 million sponsorship fee if it could move the sales needle. Then in 1997 he landed the whale: Wal-Mart. "We tend to think in increments, in small steps," Scott tells TIME. "Irwin thinks in big steps, in flights of steps." He also hounded the Wal-Mart man into submission. "It was the only way I could get Irwin to stop calling," says Scott of the deal...
...wrong, and I'd be happy to tell him that. It's really, really hard to beat the market. You can't do it by spending a few evenings each week and a few hours on weekends putting together a portfolio. The few people who can beat the market tend to be obsessed...
...entitles landlords to collect double the rent plus legal fees from tenants who remain after the lease expires without a signed release. Baltimore real estate attorney Thomas C. Barbuti recommends that, whenever possible, parents of the roommates co-sign a lease and exchange letters agreeing to share liability. Landlords tend to go after the parents with the deepest pockets...
...have to be a right-wing ideologue to ask whether it's always a good idea for a child to claim a gay identity at 13 or 14. Cornell's Savin-Williams, who is generally sunny about gay kids' prospects, notes that those who come out early tend to have a harder time at school, at home and with their friends than those...
...Point is an exception, and despite the gift bags, he's right. The weekend retreat was packed with anodyne activities such as a boat ride to twee Mackinac Island. Lancaster spends an inordinate amount of energy pairing each scholar with a career-appropriate mentor. The mentors are accomplished and tend to be wealthy--a hedge-fund manager, a university president, movie people--and all undergo background checks...