Pat Sajak · Aug 3, 2010 at 8:20am
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Busy System Admin
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Busy System Admin

... And the buyer probably got the raw end of the deal!

Mel Foil
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etoiledunord

It's like buying Yugo for the nameplate.

Cas Balicki
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Cas Balicki

Where is Monty Hall when you need him?

James Poulos, Ed.

"Harman added that his 'primary responsibility' will be building a succession plan for Newsweek to hand it over to his children or an outside owner upon his death." Sullivan: "And one might have hoped that a new owner taking it into the new era might a) have a plan and b) be younger than 91. "

Melanie Graham
James Poulos, Ed.: "Harman added that his 'primary responsibility' will be building a succession plan for Newsweek to hand it over to his children or an outside owner upon his death." Sullivan: "And one might have hoped that a new owner taking it into the new era might a) have a plan and b) be younger than 91. " · Aug 3 at 8:47am

To my children, I bequeath the old Barcalounger chair that I died in...

tabula rasa
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tabula rasa

And the only reason there was any positive value was that George Will writes a column every couple of weeks. If not for that, they'd have had to pay to have someone take it.

Emily Esfahani Smith

Here's the Heritage Foundation's James Carafano on how to save Newsweek: "Put Sarah Palin on the cover of every issue. No, serious. Bet sales would go up."

Matthew Gilley
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Matthew Gilley

Here's the question: Will the buyer get change?

Jimmy Carter
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Jimmy Carter

The buyer can only hope.

G.A. Dean
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G.A. Dean

According the WSJ/All Things Digital, Harman told the employees at Newsweek, "I'm not here to make money." If that's true then he is in the right place.


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