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...Farley still insists that the Ware brothers had rocks in their hands, but Sims says, "I guess we were just expecting rocks to be coming at us." Sims is righthanded; the gun was in his left hand. "I thought I was shooting at the ground," he says. "I remember pop-pop and then thinking, Oh no, I might have hit [Virgil] in the leg." He and Farley went to a friend's house and asked him to hide the gun under his mattress...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...course, many small seminars pop up in our curriculum, although they are reserved for a select few. Those of us in small concentrations with an emphasis on one-on-one learning—I’m in history and literature—have myriad opportunities to get to know professors, to sit around a small table and debate and to write 20-page papers on original topics with original research. But many of my upperclass friends in larger concentrations lament that they haven’t had a small discussion class since their freshman seminar...
...fuel the nation's pop-star fantasies, there is Guitar Center. The country's largest retailer of musical instruments, with 113 stores in 30 states, Guitar Center provides the teeming ranks of wannabe musicians with guitars, keyboards and digital recording and mixing equipment. Although 2002 was a grim year for many retailers, sales at the chain, based in Westlake Village, Calif., rose 16%, topping $1 billion for the first time. Profits jumped 48%, to $25 million, and investors took note. Guitar Center shares, which trade on the NASDAQ, more than doubled, from $16 in September 2002 to $34 one year...
Music retailing has traditionally been a fragmented industry of mom-and-pop stores. Guitar Center, however, is following the lead of retail giants like Wal-Mart. After raising $101 million in a 1997 IPO, Albertson and his co-CEO, Larry Thomas (himself a frustrated rock guitarist), went on an expansion run that included opening new stores at the rate of one or two a month and acquiring, in 1999, the Musician's Friend catalog for $48 million. In 2001 the company purchased a 19-store chain catering to schoolkids and beginners called American Music, and last year it opened...