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...JOSH TYRANGIEL pulls triple duty for this week's issue: he reviews Garth Brooks' new album, writes an Olympic ski preview and profiles three men detained in the Justice Department's antiterrorism investigation. "That's what happens," he says, "when they assign stories using a dartboard." Chat with Josh live about all these subjects on Tuesday...
...Garth Brooks has a fine voice, though it's a shade too polished to be called distinctively great. His songbook is thick with quality ballads and rockers. But other than Friends in Low Places, a 1990 song that brilliantly melded the mischief of country with the simplicity of pop, Brooks has never produced a track with crossover appeal. What he has done, quite purposefully, is sell an astonishing 101 million records--and sales figures, more than anything, are how he has come to be defined. To the guardians of traditional country, the figures are license to write off Brooks...
...just eight days before Election Day, Bloomberg's media team--legendary New York consultant David Garth and Bill Knapp, a Washington-based consultant who worked for Bill Clinton and Al Gore--released a commercial that turned Giuliani's support into electoral gold. A fatherly endorsement of Bloomberg and a warm farewell to his city, Rudy's words would echo on TV and radio like a lullaby for the next week. "You may not have always agreed with me," he said, "but I gave it my all. I love this city, and I'm confident it will be in good hands...
...That medical theme is not surprising, since the idea for the show came from two young white South African doctors, Garth Japhet and Shereen Usdin, who had studied and worked in township hospitals and clinics, including in Alexandra. They envisioned a dramatic program that would highlight the social and health problems - particularly HIV-AIDS - in the townships. They convinced a long list of donors - which today include the European Union, Britain's Department for International Development, unicef, British Petroleum, the mobile-phone network MTN and the South African government's Department of Health - to put up the money, and 'Soul...
...accounting practices. And four companies--Arthur Andersen, Credit Lyonnais, Natsource and Swiss Re--are developing an exchange where companies can trade, even in an embryonic market devoid of legislative standards. "They're trying to nail down something that will be useful under laws that are not yet defined," says Garth Edward, a broker at Natsource, an energy-trading firm...