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A hard look at Metro

Racist joke turns spotlight on a company seen by some as crass and insensitive

By Christopher Rowland and Charles M. Sennott
Globe Staff / January 26, 2005

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As the wine flowed at Metro International SA's conference in Italy in April 2003, the cadre of newspaper executives who built the company's global chain of free daily tabloids took turns entertaining their colleagues. (Full article: 3792 words)

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