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...retreated to, Berlin was waiting, hibernating. That old feeling? He surely had it No one could be older (Berlin died at 101 in 1989); and no one knew better how to set a feeling to music insinuate it in the public ear. If the musical sophisticates razzed him for writing candy corn, he public gobbled it up. If he never achieved the acceptance of Jerome Kern, George Gershwin or Richard Rodgers, well, hell, they needed someone else to write their lyrics; Berlin did it all himself. If he seemed an immigrant all-American, that's because he was: Israel Beilin...
...subject to subject, but they have some rare insights. In particular, they make a persuasive case that the truly transformative change in our world is not found in technology or global economics but in unprecedented mobility, the power to get up and go. "A specter haunts the world," they write, and "it is the specter of migration." As policymakers struggle to come to terms with a world in which multiple diasporas create multiple identities and loyalties, that claim may be the place to start charting our common future...
Culminating the progress that rock has made against pop this year, three dudes who write their own songs and play their own instruments are outselling Britney Spears with their new CD. For many people over 14, that sounds like an answer to a fervent prayer. But it's unclear whether the hard-rock band Creed's new album Weathered (Wind-up), which debuted at first place on the Billboard 200 by selling 887,000 copies in its first week, is salvation or the devil in disguise...
...Recently, Utada has started taking charge of her work. "I wasn't trying to exert that much control over the musical production in the first (album)," she says. "I would write the song and sing it, but then I left much of the arrangement up to my father and the arranger and the producers who were working on it. I'd just go in and like, say, 'Yeah, I think that's good. Maybe you can do that.' Whatever. But, for the second album, I was a lot more involved...
...greater involvement with the Internet, he was put in charge of News Corp.'s Web operations. Neither venture produced the kind of results that launch careers. The severely pared-down music division is now on the verge of being sold. News Corp. also recently took a $300 million write-off for dotcom investments James championed...