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...marquee names like Howard Stern and Martha Stewart, stars who CEO Karmazin is convinced will differentiate his brand and lure subscribers and, eventually, big ad dollars. Stern, whose history with Karmazin dates to the mid-'80s, fits in naturally with Sirius' bad-boy image. Frustrated by the feds' indecency crackdown, Stern is literally counting down the minutes (on his website) left on his contract with Infinity, his current home. He has been a relentless promoter for Sirius, trying to coax his 12 million listeners over to pay radio. He is also charging Sirius a fortune to air his signature blend...
...happening again." The strategy worked in 1989, when Shanghai's leaders avoided a fiasco similar to Beijing's Tiananmen Massacre by persuading students to return to their dorms for the sake of the city's stability. This time around, officials in China's financial capital can only hope the crackdown will compel its citizens to get back to business as usual...
...remained consistent in this belief and others, though the ideological label applied to him has changed drastically over the years. His recent remark that “The saints were people of creativity, not bureaucratic functionaries” suggests that he will not engage in the sort of bureaucratic crackdown some expect. We are hopeful that this spirit of creativity will be seen in Benedict’s pontificate, especially in his dealings with the young people whose imagination John Paul II captured so enthusiastically...
Today's prison crisis represents the late-arriving bill for the law-and-order crackdown of the past decade. Public anger at crime has resulted in the wholesale warehousing of unprecedented numbers of criminals, often at great cost: about $40,000 to build a cell and $16,000 a year to keep it occupied. Despite ambitious construction programs under way in some states ($1.2 billion for 19,000 prison berths in California alone), the crush shows little sign of easing. The inmate nation swells by 73 new members a day. At this rate, a new Folsom is needed every three...
Violence continued at home and diplomatic pressure from abroad accelerated last week as South Africa entered the third week of its state of emergency, the most severe crackdown by the country's white minority government against the black majority in 25 years. As the number of blacks detained without charge passed 1,300 and the death toll in the black townships reached 24, the government banned the holding of mass outdoor funerals in some areas. The services had become the focal point of black grief and outrage. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the 1984 Nobel laureate who has emerged...