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...really loved coaching kids. I could change a kid's life in five minutes, some poor kid who didn't think he could do something. And in 10 minutes, all of a sudden he's doing it, and he's walking around like a bantam rooster. Unlike in film, I didn't have to wait for music or editing for the payoff. It happens right there, on the spot. I really enjoyed that, and I wouldn't have traded...
...strategy that's working for Bantam Interactive is to operate under the biggies' radar. Bantam struck gold with its BA 350 player, launched in October. Sales of the $200 unit reached 10,000 through the holidays, and the company says it sells about 8,500 players a month. Bantam doesn't advertise or sell through retailers. Consumers shop on Bantam's website, bantamusa.com A skeleton crew does design and engineering in St. Louis, Mo. Flash-memory chips and circuit boards come from Taiwan and South Korea. The units are assembled and packaged in China and sent directly to customers...
...Bantam's players go platinum, it will be because the company listened closely to hard-core music users--college kids. On campuses across the nation, Bantam employs student "gadget gurus," who test models and get feedback from peers. When students requested more volume capacity, lighter weight and color faceplates, Bantam delivered. "A lot of tech companies try to force the market," says president Santosh Petel. "We provide what customers demand." That's an approach big record labels haven't tried in quite a while...
...Bradby's nimble crime novel The Master of Rain (Bantam Press; 479 pages) sinks readers into the sullied lives of China's colonial nabobs, leading us through the brothels, country clubs, crime labs, opium dens and dance halls of 1920s Shanghai?where "you can get heroin on room service in all the best hotels" and every building along the Bund is "a projection of American or European power...
Samper highlights a Trinity men’s lineup that includes five of the top ten players atop the NISRA rankings. All five are foreign born. Only three of the 17 players on the Bantam roster are Americans, and of those three only one played in the top nine this weekend. Similarly, the women’s team features Amina Helal (England) and the world’s former No. 2 junior (under 19), Lynn Leong, a Malaysian. A number of the foreign-born players—including Samper and Leong—have taken years off to play squash...