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That led the Canadian student to quit his summer job at IBM and build Fairtunes fairtunes.com) a website where you can send money to your favorite artists in payment for music downloads. Enter your credit-card details, type in how much you want to send, and Fairtunes will cut checks and track down artists anywhere in the world on your behalf (most artists, like Bjork, cash them; some, like Ani DiFranco, ask for them to be redirected to charity; a few, like U2, ignore the checks altogether...
Your commencement-speaker payment will be refunded only if a) an official head count after the first 30 minutes of the address shows that 50% or more of the audience has left; b) six or more vegetables have landed on the podium; or c) the microphone cord has been severed...
...buses begin to arrive en masse, and by lunchtime the main drag has become a noisy testament to European automotive engineering. Under the Golden Triangle sign, a dozen or so children clad in gaudy hill-tribe garb jump into everyone's photographs, invited or not, then proffer palms for payment. Refusal is not brooked kindly, and even the most tightfisted succumb under the onslaught of teary eyes, wailing and shirt tugging. "Everyone can smell the tourist dollars," says Miss Pim, owner of the Arabica coffee shop, as she bustles around fixing espressos and cappuccinos. "Once people start making money, everyone...
...card issuer, we've owned for a long time. It's growing from what was a midcap company into the larger-cap space. It has demonstrated 20%-a-year growth and, with its credit review and issuance process, it has an above-average customer in terms of income and payment history. We've also been very successful with SunGard Data Systems and continue to see that as a good long-term opportunity. It provides specialized software into the financial-services market and recently bought Comdisco to make it a larger player in that area. Comdisco was one of the companies...
...that a U.S. war against Iraq could provoke political unrest undermining the pro-American Hashemites. Moreover, Jordan is dependent on Saddam's largesse for its economic survival, thanks to a deal by which Saddam sells the Kingdom all its oil at a 60% discount from world prices and takes payment in the form of imports that keep Jordan's factories in business...