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...baron bidders like Hank Greenberg, Jack Welch and David Geffen--who have expressed interest in the Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth newspapers? Perhaps they're aware that 85% of adults either read a paper every week or visit its website. Less pressure from Wall Street may forestall short-term cuts, enabling papers to shift their focus from quarterly earnings toward rethinking the print game. "Newspapers are in a strong position to extend off-line publications online," says Alexia Quadrani, media analyst for Bear Stearns, "and they're still...
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...moment. In 1967, Nixon, then a defeated candidate for both the presidency and the California governorship, had written in Foreign Affairs magazine: "We simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations." Two years later, as President, he let it be known that he wanted to visit the mainland before leaving office. On hearing this, Henry Kissinger, his National Security Adviser, smiled at a colleague and said, "Fat chance." Kissinger would soon find himself responsible for the trip's logistics and official communiqu?s. As for Mao, he had told a party conference in 1956: "In 12 years...
While most tourists slip through Johannesburg seeing little more than the airport, those who want to understand the darker days in South Africa's not-so-distant past should visit Constitution Hill. Until 1983 this was home to the Old Fort Prison, where thousands of political prisoners once awaited trial. Today it has been partially preserved as a museum, but the old Awaiting Trial Block has been demolished, and in its place is the new Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land. It's the end result of a competition to "create a building rooted in the South African...