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Still, he got it right, not only by creating the two best players in the game but by gutsily holding out for a huge endorsement contract. And there will be more in what promises to be a long era of Williams domination. The end of the summer saw two tournament wins in a row by the Williamses--Serena in Toronto and Venus in New Haven. This year's Open was the death knell not just for Hingis, whose weak serve and clever volleying look a century old, but even for the "veterans"--powerful Capriati and Lindsay Davenport, who just...
...Jimmy Buffett and Cat Stevens to Ben Harper and De La Soul, Johnson has perfected the admittedly picayune art of contemporary beach music. If the rest of the country hasn't yet heard of him, it is likely because he could barely muster the ambition to get a recording contract in the first place...
...hotel clerks and doctors and lawyers, work for the state. And state bureaucracies never move quickly; Cuban officials were slow to recognize the commercial potential of homegrown hip-hop. Indeed, the members of Orishas became so frustrated that they relocated to Europe when a French producer offered them a contract. Their album A Lo Cubano sold more than 400,000 copies in Europe and spawned countless bootlegs in Cuba. Orisha member Ruzzo says, "Cuba is still my home, but when you are offered a record contract, you take...
...monopolistic behavior through “conduct remedies”—agreements that force a company to change its practices rather than its structure—have been ineffective at spurring market competition. In 1994, after years of government investigation, Microsoft modified its licensing contract with PC makers under a settlement reached with Justice Department officials. But Microsoft quickly embarked on new efforts to evade the consent degree and to protect its operating system monopoly from offerings by Netscape and Sun, prompting the government’s antitrust suit...
...into Oklahoma oil money, Bright claims to have been a "happy pagan" in his youth. By his 20s he had moved to Los Angeles and founded Bright's California Confections. But he fell into the circle of legendary Christian youth worker Henrietta Mears, and under her influence drafted a contract with the Lord stipulating, in part, "I am your slave." His for-profit work tailed off; but his entrepreneurial bent flourished. In the 1950's, conservative Christian youth had begun an exodus from small bible colleges into liberal arts schools, wildernesses of secularism. Sensing a market, Bright founded Campus Crusade...