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  • BIG-TIME KID STUFF

    Blame it on B’omarr Monk.The spidery-looking droid from “Star Wars”-who only appears in “Return of the Jedi” for a few seconds-inadvertently led toy titan

  • Fair Game

    The London DM Fair is going global.The event-scheduled for March 16-18-has been rechristened the International Direct Marketing Fair. Twelve thousand

  • Algebra 2 Is Brought to You by . . .

    In this month’s cover story, societal watchdog Ralph Nader likens ZapMe’s installation of 100,000-plus computers in high schools to the arrival of Big

  • The Net’s Horsepower

    One reason shopping online proved so popular over this past holiday season was that the Web offered truly novel gifts, available nowhere at retail.Here’s

  • HSN Plays Games

    The Home Shopping Network, St. Petersburg, FL, is launching Match It, a memory challenge game similar to Old Maid designed to entertain diehard viewers

  • Pay to Play

    Database Investment has continued unabated from last year, according to DIRECT’s annual reader survey. Once again, just over half of our respondents indicated

  • Holiday Hangover

    In the name of science-and because I didn’t want to spend much time in the malls-I did a lot of my holiday shopping by catalog this recent holiday season.During

  • Motown Meets Tinseltown

    Hollywood Universal Studios has signed a massive marketing deal with the Dodge division of DaimlerChrysler that is being touted as one of the largest

  • RAPP COLLINS: LABOR OF LOVE

    Who says you can’t have a hard nose for business and a heart of mush? Ask any of the designers, copywriters, marketers or other Rapp Collins staffers

  • Keeping in Touch

    Three-Martini lunches are kind of like the 1960s-if you remember them, you weren’t there. By the time all parties sobered up, a contract had been signed,