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...Early in the game, RZA convinced his 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. They then launch a new crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Wu | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

Cobb's plan connects Coolidge Hall and the University Information Systems building on Cambridge Street via an underground tunnel...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Building Boom | 11/16/2000 | See Source »

...pedal steel guitar is the descendant of the lap steel, which came into vogue around 1915 with the Hawaiian music craze and gradually worked its way into the American mainstream via the music of Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Alvino Rey and Santo & Johnny ("Sleepwalk"). American manufacturers like Rickenbacker and Gibson began making instruments to suit this new style of music, essentially flat slabs of wood, metal or Bakelite outfitted with a pickup and six or eight strings set about an inch above a painted-on fretboard. A guitar in name only, the steel guitar is played seated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing the Mettle of a Pedal Steeler | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...Federal code requires each state to send their results via the United States Postal Service, postmarked no later than December 19. Then, on January 6, the national tally takes place in Washington. And although there are seven copies of the results, only about half of them go to D.C. One copy goes to the president of the U.S. Senate (a.k.a. Al Gore), two go to the national archives, two are held in Albany by the state secretary of state, and the last two are held by the chief federal justice of the region. That's the case in every state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, What's It Like Being in the Electoral College? | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...nationwide protests were organized in three days completely via the Internet, Kohli said...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Students Protest Florida Ballots | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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