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...catalogue of more than a million songs - is the world's largest, with a market share analysts estimate at around 20%. Last month, EMI Music reached a first-of-its-kind agreement with two royalties collection societies - Britain's mcps-prs Alliance and Germany's gema - to offer its Anglo-American songs under a single, one-stop license to European mobile and online services, rather than on a clunky territory-by-territory basis. And consumers - especially teens - are embracing the new technology with fervor. Ringtune sales of Atlanta rap group Dem Franchize Boyz's single, I Think They Like...
...usefully combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal and an Atlanticist - but not an Anglo-Saxon - he should have been able to bridge the gap between new and old Europe that opened up before the Iraq war. Above all, he was a fresh face. The two previous presidencies, led by Jacques Santer of Luxembourg and Romano Prodi of Italy, had left many disappointed and hoping...
...plans to build a bathroom with running water), he doesn't have much money left. His only furniture is a mattress and a milk crate. Cardboard does the job of window shades. Octavio speaks just a few words of English and says he lives in fear of his Anglo neighbors, who seem to be constantly scolding him on the street. He thinks they might be mistaking him for one of his housemates, who disrupted the quiet neighborhood with repeated attempts to do body- repair work on old cars in the driveway...
...roots of this rage can be found in place and time. The city's Sutherland Shire, where the troubles first occurred, is a close cousin of the O.C., 4,000 miles across the Pacific. The ?shire?, predominantly white, Anglo-Saxon, and insular, is unlike the rest of Sydney, which has for 60 years peacefully absorbed waves of immigrants from Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each summer, the shire's surf beaches attract hordes of visitors from the immigrant, working-class suburbs of southwestern Sydney. Not all visitors are welcome. Some behave very badly. Policing has been...
...Business Coalition Against HIV/ AIDS (gbc). The epidemic in emerging economies such as India and China, he notes, threatens the future health of global commerce. As many as 30% of the employees at certain mines in Africa are infected. The severity of the crisis has prompted mining giants like Anglo American and De Beers to get deeply involved in battling the disease, providing HIV medication to employees and their families and even surrounding communities. Neilsen says executives at firms that depend on raw materials coming from those mines need to be worried as well. "Even if you remove any moral...