This Ad's Down

By Melissa August, Val Castronovo, Rachel Dry, Daren Fonda, Michael Jackson, Ben Nugent, Michele Orecklin, Julie Rawe, John Rosenblatt, Josh Tyrangiel, Alexandra Wolfe

FIRE THAT MEDIA PLANNER In light of last week's Concorde crash (with early indications placing blame on the tires), it seemed an excruciatingly bad time to run this full-page ad for the financial-services firm UBS in Friday's New York Times. Was someone not reading the headlines? Said UBS, which has pulled the ad: "We regret it." The Times had no comment.