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Johnson is proof of what an astute businessman with a sense of black pride can accomplish. He dines occasionally at the White House and is an important contributor to such politicians as Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and Illinois Governor James Thompson. Yet Johnson has never been completely comfortable with his success. Says he: "I live with the knowledge that it's possible to fail, and I try so hard that...
Solar radiation does funny things to the brain. It was in summers past that we fell for the Macarena as party starter, Regis Philbin as fashion icon and Howard Dean as Democratic front runner. If you need further proof that the ozone layer is thinning, look to the summer TV season of 2005, in which ABC got 15 million rapt Americans to watch Dancing with the Stars, the most proudly bizarre song-and-dance show since Pink Lady and Jeff...
...that will enable users to access everything from news, music and movies to games and online auction sites. Currently, only 20 million Chinese own computers, but 330 million have TVs. Will interactive TV catch on? "The Chinese are very fast learners," he says. His own history is proof of that. -By Hannah Beech/Shanghai...
...that their core business--not their fancy financial instruments--can be the only guarantor of success. JetBlue, the profitable low-cost carrier, is less hedged than Southwest and Alaska, largely because the company is only five years old and fuel strategies evolve over time. Still, JetBlue's profits are proof that offering a service to which customers return is the best strategy. In the long run, says Steve Rock, manager of fuel hedging and finance for Alaska Airlines, "hedging is not going to be the savior of the airline industry." Meanwhile, however, it's buying some valuable time. --With reporting...
BONO It's proof of how far we've come. The difference between this era and the original manifests itself in the Drop the Debt campaign. It's the journey from charity to justice. From the tin cupping of Live Aid-big cups, sure, $200 million cups-to now, when $25 billion is on the table, and we're not begging for it. Over the years, with the Make Poverty History campaign in Europe and the One campaign in the U.S., we have moved into real politics and real activism. We've cultivated a constituency so that now, when those...