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...their solo careers on hold, they'd share in a giant pot of gold via the vagaries of corporate synergy. He was right. The Wu-Tang brand blossomed under an unprecedented 1993 contract the band signed with Loud Records (Sony owns a 49% stake) that allowed each member to branch into solo projects on other labels. Every few years the group pulls together for an album, thus raising each member's visibility and bolstering the branding strength of Wu-Tang, Inc. They then launch a new crop of Wu-branded products. The cycle repeats. It resembles a concept called...
...found experimenting with different pedal setups even more fun than building Estes rockets, and I find myself wondering if my lifelong disaffinity with even the simplest math separates me from my fellow travelers. Like all cults, pedal steel has its own subgenus, and in the field this particular cladistic branch appears to consist mostly of middle-aged working-class white men in warmup jackets and Nikes. A few conventiongoers are accompanied by wives or girlfriends, but there are no virtually no females participating in the event, and I hear of only one woman in attendance who actually plays the instrument...
...under those circumstances the nation's politicians have been inclined to hack away at the authority not only of Bill Clinton himself, but of the office he occupies. Presidential authority, of course, applies primarily to matters of foreign policy - the constitutional separation of powers has traditionally limited the executive branch's authority at home...
...Crescent is the Palestinian branch of the International Red Cross, an avowedly neutral humanitarian organization. The HLF says it is a foundation dedicated to providing relief to Palestinian refugees in the Middle East...
...winning The Age of Jackson (he won a second Pulitzer, in 1966, for his participant's history of the Kennedy Administration, A Thousand Days). Kept out of the draft by poor eyesight, he worked for the Office of War Information, eventually returning to London for the Research and Analysis branch of the oss. Schlesinger politely rejects the Tom Brokaw idea of "the greatest generation": "Like all wars, our war was accompanied by atrocity and sadism, by stupidities and lies, pomposity and chickens...