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...brave new digital world. The administration promptly laid off 1,800 employees (20% of EMI's staff), which helped absorb the impact when sales fell 10% in 2002--and created an executive position, global head of antipiracy. It also brought in executive vice president John Rose, an e-commerce ace from consulting firm McKinsey. "The fundamental premise of hiring someone like me," says Rose, "is that this industry needs to be re-engineered." Since last summer, EMI has been holding weekly three-hour lunch meetings with artists, managers, agents and lawyers, a dozen at a time, to explain to them...
...across the Demilitarized Zone, has long argued against provoking the North by playing tough. Might Roh finally relent, joining Bush in a bid to sever the North's financial lifelines? Not likely, says Chuck Downs, author of Over the Line, a study of North Korea's negotiating tactics, "Their ace in the hole is South Korean fear...
Ronz (3-2) didn’t disappoint, cementing his status as staff ace by scattering seven hits and three runs over his seven innings. He outdueled Tim Grant, Dartmouth’s No. 1 starter and master of a hard slider...
They knew what it felt like to lose the divison on the last day of the season. It wasn’t going to happen again. Ronz—Harvard’s ace since Hendricks went down two weeks ago—was ruthless in game three, throwing all seven innings. In the final frame, the lefty struck out the side, twice on full counts...
Salsgiver was also a pitcher in high school—and a dominating one at that. In his junior season, he went 13-0 for Davison with 122 strikeouts, and was named All-State as a pitcher as well as a hitter. With the recent loss of ace Trey Hendricks leaving Harvard one Ivy starter short, Salsgiver might be needed on the hill as well as at the plate this weekend...