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...under a lot of Christmas trees this year. Since Columbia released the landmark five-record album last month, it has been selling as quickly as stores can get it in stock. Springsteen Live became the first album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard magazine's best-sellers chart since Stevie Wonder put out Songs in the Key of Life a full decade ago. Retailers signed up for an unprecedented initial shipment of 1.5 million Springsteen record, tape and compact disc sets, but those copies sold so fast that the stores have ordered 1.85 million more. Since the 40-song...
...medals. Forward/defenseman and two-time Olympian Julie W. Chu ’06-’07 is co-captain of the Harvard women’s ice hockey team. In the middle of her final season, she ranks a close sixth on Harvard’s career scoring chart, and she has competed on the U.S. national ice hockey team since 2000, according to gocrimson.com. Chu brought home a silver medal in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, then a bronze from Turin in 2006. She is the first Chinese-American woman to represent America on the Olympic...
...Deepening ties between the two biggest democracies in Asia is part of Abe's efforts to chart a new direction for Japan's foreign policy, one less consumed with the U.S. and more embracing of Asia - albeit selectively. "With [former Prime Minister] Junichiro Koizumi, the U.S. was Number 1, Number 2 and Number 3," says Takako Hirose, a professor of South Asian politics at Tokyo's Senshu University. "I think for Abe, Asia is more important...
...organization plans to overhaul its marketing next year, remaking its logo (the new one is on the accompanying chart) and sharpening its well-established brand with ventures into the Internet and music. AARP plans to establish a massive new Web presence with a social network based at AARP.org and launch its own blog on current events. Also under way is a wide-ranging music-marketing campaign, including sponsorship of its first-ever national concert tour (with Tony Bennett), a Web-based music-recommendation service and a music blog...
...While the slobs they find might be real, the trend is a complete fiction. In fact, the undeniable trend is in the other direction - the number of adult children living with their parents has been going down, gradually, for 15 years. Here's a chart, based on U.S. Census data...