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Open letter to Jack Kliger and Cathie Black: Why didn't you save your staffs the trouble and shut down your magazines in time to give your employees a little summer vacation (especially considering one of the magazines in question was Weekend)? But no: The staff of Hachette Filipacchi's For Me barely got a head start on the Labor Day weekend when the word came down yesterday that Kliger would do what he has done best as Hachette's CEO: shut down the magazine. (During his tenure, Hachette has closed Mirabella, George, Travel Holiday, and even his launches, ElleGirl ...
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