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This story appeared in the Bedford/ Pound Ridge Record Review newspaper on Friday August 17th 2007, and is reprinted here with permission.
Freedom of speech violation or just doing business?
By EVE MARX of the Bedford Record Review
Mark Stevens is ticked. The Pound Ridge resident and CEO of MSCO, a Rye Brook-based international [...]

Okay, the iPhone has eclipsed Paris Hilton as the media’s hysterical focus of attention. It’s the new subject of furious debate that amounts to nothing more than a tempest in a teapot. Will the iPhone sell? Does it connect slowly to the Internet? Is it too expensive? Is it truly a technical marvel? Is Jobs [...]

Imagine this: a company arrives in town and offers the good people who live there jobs. No one is forced to take one. No one holds a gun to their head. The same company then has the temerity to say, “If you work hard and serve our customers well, we will promote you from within.” [...]

I drink, on average, eight a day– Diet Cokes, that is. Talk about a breakfast with voltage! Nothing comes close. I worship the gunk.
As do we all. Even Britney Spears has been rumored to drink 24 Cokes a day! We are not Americans. We are, technically speaking, “descendants of Pilgrims who are addicted to brown [...]

Janis Joplin, the wild woman who downed Southern Comfort like it was Poland Spring burst on the drug-soaked rock scene in the 60’s and became its most electric diva. The girl was wired. She screamed her own brand of blues like she had ten minutes to get it all out before she died disappearing as [...]