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...fellow rappers that if they put their solo careers on hold, they'd share in a giant pot of gold via the vagaries of corporate synergy. He was right. The Wu-Tang brand blossomed under an unprecedented 1993 contract the band signed with Loud Records (Sony owns a 49% stake) that allowed each member to branch into solo projects on other labels. Every few years the group pulls together for an album, thus raising each member's visibility and bolstering the branding strength of Wu-Tang, Inc. It then launches a new crop of Wu-branded products. The cycle repeats...
...Remember, he not just ambitious, he's the party fund-raiser. And he figures that if Antonin Scalia is the one to drive the stake through Al Gore's heart, the martyr bucks will roll in like never before. And the Republican party might have another polarizing face it would rather do without...
...last time Congress decided a dispute between electors was in 1960, when Richard Nixon won the initial count in Hawaii and John Kennedy won the recount. But little was at stake then, since Kennedy already had the Electoral College votes he needed. Presumably, the Republican-dominated House would be inclined to select Bush. The prospect of Congress selecting the next President is odd enough. Making it even more surreal: the presiding officer at such a proceeding would be Vice President Al Gore...
...dollars over budget, the Acela, which is expected to launch in the Washington-Boston Northeast corridor on Dec. 11, is Amtrak's last chance to prove that intercity passenger rail can be a legitimate travel alternative in the U.S., as it is in Europe and Japan. "It's a stake in the ground," says CEO George Warrington, who envisions Acela as the first of a necklace of high-speed rail corridors (such as Los Angeles-San Francisco and Chicago-Milwaukee). It has to move fast though. With Congress set to cut off operating subsidies by the end of 2002, Amtrak...
KIDS LOVE: Egyptian mummies and Frederic Church's painting Icebergs. Dole takes his kids to the sculpture garden to see Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's Stake Hitch, "so they can touch and feel the artwork...