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...return to growth. Given that the established music industry of the day has alternately resisted and then succumbed to every new technology since the player piano in 1896, users would seem to have the weight of history on their side. "A business strategy that alienates your customer base isn't a good strategy," says Andreessen. "The most productive way to solve the problem is to satisfy demand." CDs saved music in 1985; perhaps some modest fencing around the cash cow of CD burning can save the industry again in 2003. --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Jeff Chu/London
...point of hacking the hands off civilians, on the grounds they had been used to vote for Kabbah. INDIA Jammu's "Massacre of Innocents" Tension between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir rose when three gunmen killed 34 people in a raid on the Kaluchak army base in Jammu. The dead were mainly women and included 11 children. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told Parliament last Friday that the "massacre of innocents" meant that India would "have to retaliate." A day later, New Delhi expelled the Pakistani High Commissioner. Since December, the two countries have mobilized...
...tempting to wag a finger at spendthrifts living beyond their means, or at the new breed of middle-class speculators taking out buy-to-let mortgages to become landlords. Yet most British borrowers look quite clear-eyed and rational once you've seen their household balance sheets. With base interest rates at a 38-year low of 4%, many feel they literally can't afford not to borrow...
...else can you explain, Castro confidants ask, why he didn't explode when Washington dumped hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. naval base on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay this year? And why didn't he burn like a lighted Cohiba last week when visiting ex-President Jimmy Carter lectured about human rights on live Cuban TV and urged Castro to respect a referendum bid by dissidents seeking more freedoms? Because he knew Carter would make an equally strong call for the U.S. to lift the embargo...
Whitton concluded arguably the greatest offensive season in Harvard softball history by batting 9-for-12 to lead the program to its first ECAC title. She did this despite fracturing a finger sliding back to second base during the tournament opener against Columbia. The injury, which made her life more difficult during the end of reading period, had no ill effect on her softball...