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What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story -- part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine.
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A Montrose Man's Panic Room Wasn't Enough Whitt Bruney was so scared of his neighbor, he moved out. Eight years later that didn't do much good...
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2008 Houston Press Music Awards Showcase A preview of the 60 bands and five DJs that are taking over downtown this weekend
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Best Whistle-Blower
Oscar Wyatt
Published on September 25, 2003
Call it big-time seller's remorse. Former Coastal Corporation CEO Oscar Wyatt Jr. voted as a board member to sell the company for $22 million to El Paso Corporation in 2001, then decided he'd made a big mistake. He became the lead plaintiff in a shareholders' suit alleging the management of El Paso violated federal securities laws. Wyatt took out full-page newspaper ads skewering El Paso management and then led an attempt to oust the executives at an El Paso shareholders meeting in Houston. Wyatt and shareholder Selim Zilkha spent $6 million on the effort but ultimately lost the fight when the shareholders stuck with the old order.
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