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...according to Mark Mulligan, an analyst at JupiterResearch in London. The music industry hopes parents of young music lovers perhaps unaware they are breaking the law, will force their kids to start downloading music legally. But convincing all music scofflaws to change their ways will prove a trickier sell...
...1980s had become a backroom politico, I felt for the very first time that God had a reason for having me work at TIME magazine. Standing near the pastry table at 8:30 a.m., I looked up to see Thomas, 50, descending the stairwell like someone who could still sell a lot of posters. "O.K.! We're starting!" she screamed, followed by "Sorry, I yelled in your ear." A bit starstruck, I may have awkwardly responded, "I kind of liked it." To which she said, "Some people do." I don't understand why some people prefer Heather Locklear...
...idea that you write poetry your whole life and then suddenly in a very public way have to start thinking about how to make it 'useful' for the nation is pretty terrifying. In a culture like ours, where language has been completely and utterly subordinated to the task of selling people things, how do you create a little freedom? Only in art that isn't designed to sell or convince or sermonize or cajole or urge. Maybe that's poetry, or at least some poetry...
...Antique Wine Company plans to sell collections from the other seven châteaux - Lafite to Haut-Brion, Latour to Mouton Rothschild - over the next three years. That'll give you time to save up; the Château Margaux collections cost $390,000 each. It may be "God who decides what the vintage will be like," according to Château Margaux owner Corinne Mentzelopoulos. But it's the precision of great winemakers that makes these collections worth every penny. www.antique-wine.com
...July 22, General Electric announced a string of deals with the Mubadala Development Company, a government-controlled investment fund in the tiny Persian Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi. Among other things, GE and Mubadala pledged to invest $8 billion in a joint venture to sell financial products in the Middle East and Africa. Ultimately, said Mubadala, it plans to be one of GE's 10 largest investors...