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With VERY few historical exceptions, the goal of record labels—especially major labels, or labels with the ability to significantly affect anything in the music world—is to make money. This isn’t exclusive to the music industry, and it isn’t something that I want to debate here (I think we both agree it’s not ideal, to say the least). But it is the way the system works right now, and it is inescapable...
...effort to remove some of the rough edges of apartheid, the government decided that mixed marriages and sexual relations between whites and nonwhites would no longer be forbidden. But these reforms, important as they may be in the context of South Africa, meant little to blacks and did not affect what apartheid is really all about: the preservation of white political power. Botha conceded that ways would have to be found to allow blacks to live legally and permanently in the townships they have long inhabited. But he also reaffirmed his commitment to the homelands concept. Nor did he ever...
...union's action could profoundly affect the entire steel industry. Earlier this year, steelmakers abandoned their 29-year tradition of negotiating one pact for all American workers. With labor contracts for five major steel manufacturers due to expire next July, the Wheeling settlement could become a trendsetter for an industry that has grown unaccustomed to strikes. Said William T. Hogan, a steel-industry expert and an economics professor at Fordham University: "This is historic, a benchmark. The outcome will be of great importance for both the companies and the union...
...technology is in the design of new chemicals and drugs. By showing how the molecules of the active ingredients in a drug attach themselves, like keys in locks, to target molecules in the body, computer models can help researchers see how a change in molecular structure will affect a drug's behavior. Says Robert Langridge, who heads the computer-graphics laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco: "I call it computer-assisted insight...
Second, we celebrate the precedents set. Harvard University, as much as it would like to deny it, has sent a clear message that it recognizes the moral consequences of its institutional decisions. We, as students, have recognized that same principle, as well as our own responsibility to affect those decisions...