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/ 24 January 2007
Books are now being customised and marketed for specific retail outlets, such as hardware stores and delicatessens, reports Ed Pilkington in New York.
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/ 14 December 2006
When the Governor of New Hampshire, John Lynch, introduced his guest of honour at a rally to celebrate the state’s Democratic routing of the Republicans in the recent mid-term elections, he shared a secret with the large, boisterous crowd. ”We originally scheduled the Rolling Stones,” he said, ”but we cancelled them when we realised Senator Obama would sell more tickets.”
In all the thousands of column inches of newsprint, amid all the hours of television coverage devoted to Monday’s carnage in the schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, it was the little details that stood out. The fact that the police had to use vans to carry parents to hospital to be at the bedsides of their mortally wounded children because they refused to go by helicopter.
Millionaires, eat your heart out. You have no longer made it. For the first time since it was set up in 1982, Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans contains not a single nine-figure fortune in it. It is the age of the dollar billionaire, and everyone makes the grade. Even number 400, Los Angeles magnate Sehat Sutardja, has -billion.