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...besieged by follow-up media requests. No time for all that while he's hard at work saving American business from itself. Yet he doesn't view himself as any sort of caped crusader. "I've never seen him try to push an agenda," says Black. Buffett's efforts tend to be understated. But now that he's becoming more vocal about his beliefs, he can expect more opposition. In an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal, Harvey Golub, a director at Dow Jones and former CEO of American Express, has already argued that stock options should...
Integrating e-commerce into other content areas has helped portals drive traffic and generate click-throughs for partner merchants. But when it's time to buy, consumers still tend to go straight to the source. Forrester Research asked Web shoppers how they found the site where they made their most recent online purchase, and a mere 2% said "portal or Internet mall." The majority, 62%, went to the site directly. So if portal shoppers aren't buying, what are they doing? They're absorbing marketing messages that will influence future purchases, both online and at traditional bricks-and-mortar stores...
...some featured placements. Some big retailers pay more for prominent displays, but they account for just 5% of the $14.9 billion worth of goods sold on the site last year. That makes eBay "the most democratic place on the Web," says Johnson of Forrester Research. As for shoppers, they tend to either love or hate eBay's freewheeling, bazaar-like atmosphere and wild mix of sellers and products. Some would rather pay a little more for quicker, more streamlined shopping--just like out there in real life...
...carrots in our salad bar tend to be covered in ice cubes, for some unknown, unappetizing reason...
Novels about the discrimination suffered by Asians in America tend to be melodramatic affairs calculated to get readers reaching for tissues rather than insight. Julie Otsuka's first novel, When the Emperor Was Divine, is a crisp departure from the Asian-American sobfest. Otsuka's tale of the disintegration of a Japanese-American family during World War II offers a powerful indictment of government-sponsored paranoia that has implications for today's U.S. war on terror...