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Purists complain that the crowd the clubs attract--mostly young, white and male--have little appreciation for or awareness of the history of the blues. Noisy, beer-bottle-breaking audiences sometimes drown out acoustic musicians. "They're not paying attention. They're just out to have a good time," says Michelle Willson, lead singer of the Boston blues band Evil Gal. "I've had people come up to me at the House of Blues and ask, 'Do you think Dan Aykroyd is going to be here tonight...
...reflects Branson's strength: an ability to take a consumer's experience to another level. The timing is terrible. Retail record sales in the U.S. slumped last year for the first time in a decade. Yet Duffell, the North American boss, says Virgin megastores are entertainment centers that will attract big audiences because they are so profoundly different. Certainly, calling Virgin a record store is understating the place drastically. The Times Square outlet boasts 250 listening posts and four Sony cinemas, inlaid-marble floors and an artist's replica of Michelangelo's Creation on the ceiling of the performance space...
...hold power is to have at your disposal blunt instruments. But without influence, power dies out at the end of its own channels of command. To have influence is to gain assent, not just obedience; to attract a following, not just an entourage; to have imitators, not just subordinates. Power gets its way (when it gets it). Influence makes its way. And in free societies it makes its way further...
...title. And on the Supreme Court, it has been decades since the titular chief was the real power center. During the 1970s and early '80s, the years of Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court's magnetic field emanated from the direction of William Brennan, who figured out how to attract a majority of Justices to rulings that protected the liberal jurisprudence of the Earl Warren years from the conservative appointees bunching on his right...
Just when things were looking good and Bright Hockey Center was starting to attract more fans, however, the team ran directly into its first roadblock--the Mariucci Tournament in Minnesota at the end of December. It was bad enough for Harvard to drop its first game to the nationally-ranked University of Minnesota (5-2), but Harvard hit a low when it was thrashed by the University of New Hampshire in the consolation match...