By BRIAN STELTER : This week, the television upfronts — in which the broadcast networks present their schedules to advertisers — will open with a mystery. Who stole six million viewers?
That’s the number who were watching prime time television last May, a month affectionately known as “sweeps,” but have disappeared this year, according to the […]
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E-Commerce Report : By BOB TEDESCHI
AS if home buyers do not have it good enough already, finding a house for sale on the Web is becoming easier.
The triple threat of a weak market, legal pressure and increasing competition has compelled real estate professionals to offer their information more freely online, putting cracks in a walled […]
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Music Review | Erykah Badu : By JON PARELES
Between songs at Radio City Music Hall on Friday night Erykah Badu leaned over a computer and some electronic equipment to set off burbling, swooping noises straight out of sci-fi B movies, as if she were tuning in the concert from another dimension. Maybe she was.
Ms. Badu’s […]
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By PENELOPE GREEN : THE other day, Cody Anderson, an earnest young salesman at Montauk Sofa on Mercer Street, was extolling the many, many virtues of the furniture there while leading me to a buff-colored, chenille-covered, down-filled chaise longue called Stanley. “You want to get right onto it,” he said, taking my bag. “Isn’t that […]
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Political Memo : By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
GRAFTON, W.Va. — On Mother’s Day, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was not served breakfast in bed. She did not go to a fancy lunch, or get to be queen for a day.
Instead, she rose early and spent a 16-hour day slogging through a cold rain in West Virginia, the […]
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By RACHEL L. SWARNS : LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — For years, state welfare offices like the one alongside Interstate 30 have drawn the unemployed. But these days, the red-brick building here is also attracting poor, working parents with an unexpected offer: $204 a month in cash.
Shelly Thomas, a stockroom clerk and single mother, is using […]
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