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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Chiles founded the magazine in 1999, at the suggestion of her husband, who was then serving a ten-year federal sentence for bankrolling his music label, Big Boss Records, with profits from his wholesale cocaine business. |
 | | Among them were Aisha Gumby, who, as head of operations, makes sure that copies of the magazine reach the bodegas, car washes, and hair salons that fall outside the normal distribution channels, and Susan Hampstead, a senior editor, who is also a publisher of novels written by prison inmates. |
 | | Don Diva aims to appeal to both men and women (hence its name), and Chiles suggested, for the diva contingent, a humorous list piece called “Retire Your Ho Card.” Its premise would be “You know it’s time to stop running your ho game when. |
| www.newyorker.com /talk/content?040705ta_talk_green (714 words) |
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