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...oldest newspaper chains, Journal Register, went bankrupt late last week. It had too much debt and too little operating income. The daily newspapers in Philadelphia have also filed for Chapter 11. There have been rumors, almost certainly untrue, that The New York Times (NYT) will run low on funds to pay its debt. In the case of The Times it has valuable assets to sell, but its situation deteriorates each quarter. By most estimates, its second largest property, The Boston Globe, loses $1 million a week...
...stamp series pays homage to such civil rights giants as Oswald Garrison Villard, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and assassinated NAACP official Medgar W. Evers in addition to Houston. Though a more general release celebration occurred in New York City, Saturday’s Cambridge event, held in the Zero Arrow Theatre, focused specifically on Law School graduate Houston. Born in 1895, Houston served as the NAACP Litigation Director, pioneering a novel legal strategy for confronting the institionalized racism of the United States’ Jim Crow Laws. As dean...
...will be key if it is to win the Ivy League title.“Great defense by everyone gives you that spark on the offense,” Markley saidThe team hopes that this great defensive and offensive spark transfers to Friday’s game in New York, where they seek to repay Columbia for the loss at Lavietes. Harvard takes on the Lions at 7 p.m. on Friday...
...chic" over? Well, at Fashion Week (in New York City), there's been a universal sense of horror at the diamonds and furs on the runway. We get to that basic theme - conspicuous consumption is bad manners. But chic isn't gone. If anything, conservative chic is back, because looking good is often a real part of keeping your job or finding your job. So you may not spend money on Armani suits, but there are lots of people who are much more conscious of looking good. I have a neighbor who was laid off four months...
Three states - Georgia, Connecticut and Indiana - ban the sale of beer, wine and spirits, while 15 ban only liquor sales. Connecticut is considering repealing its ban because it has been losing revenue to New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, three neighboring states that repealed Sunday sales bans in 2003. Texas is also reconsidering Sunday sales bans of liquor, with three bills in the state's Senate, two of them specific to sales along the Texas-Mexico border. "States are seeing Sunday sales as a positive way to raise revenue without raising taxes or cutting valuable programs," says Ben Jenkins, spokesman...