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...least 40 million units over five albums." But the only thing worse than signing superstars to deals that are too rich is not signing them at all. No record-company suit wants to be known as the guy who lost Janet Jackson. Plus big names lure other big names. Bruce Springsteen's manager brought him to Columbia in 1972 in large part because the label had Bob Dylan. Says Jackson's lawyer, Don Passman: "There's some trophy value to having artists of this magnitude...
...high-fat kind. In any case, let consumers, not the utopian food police at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, make the decision. Over time olestra will contribute to saving many lives that otherwise might be lost due to heart disease and excess weight. BRUCE CHAPMAN, President Discovery Institute Seattle...
...Jacques Chirac, who has been severely criticized for months for conducting a series of nuclear tests, said that France has ended the tests, which had been scheduled to continue through March. "The reality is that the French got all the information they needed from the detonations," reports TIME's Bruce Crumley from Paris. "The political damage from the tests was minimal, primarily because the U.S. and Britain didn't condemn the tests very strongly when they were originally announced. The big question is how other countries who are developing nuclear weapons will react to the fact that France broke...
...State Warren Christopher will meet Russian leaders next month, and again in March, in anticipation of a Clinton-Yeltsin summit in April. Christopher will fly to Helsinki on February 9 for talks with new foreign minister Yevgeny Primakov, a hardliner who recently replaced reformer Andrei Kozyrev. TIME's Bruce Nelan reports that a series of similar retrenchments on Yeltsin's part has "many people in Washington very worried about the course Yeltsin seems to be taking. Though some at State believe he is trying to play a political game before the elections, many also think that he may actually...
...Newer acts, such as religious rappers turned alternative rockers DC Talk and the hip-hop-influenced gospel group Kirk Franklin and the Family, have also performed strongly on the newly configured charts--and that success has sparked interest in the music industry and the media. Says Bruce Koblish, executive director of the Gospel Music Association: "No matter how good you think the music is, when it can be validated by an objective system like SoundScan, it gets a lot of people's attention...