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...problem with many J.F.K. documentaries is that the biography overwhelms the history, but Revealed does a good job of connecting the two. J.F.K. reappointed J. Edgar Hoover, for instance, because the FBI director kept an all-the-President's-women file, and his illnesses--colitis, prostatitis, Addison's disease, back pain, a cholesterol level of more than 400--taxed him heavily during national crises. This is familiar ground, but Revealed also makes good use of recently declassified tapes--J.F.K. talking with advisers during the Cuban missile crisis, with the Governor of Mississippi during the James Meredith uproar--to show...
...Moscone event, PC owners had downloaded a million copies of the software and paid for a million songs (adding to the 14 million music downloads already made by Mac users). In a year when record labels hit a sour note by suing students, grandparents and 12-year-old file sharers, Jobs had effectively brokered a peace agreement: he had shown the music industry how to win friends and turn a profit on the very Internet that was being used to steal their songs...
Long before the Music Store came on the scene, frantic record-industry executives had been searching for some way to combat their nemesis: Napster, the original file-sharing service, but to no avail. Their first online ventures, MusicNet and PressPlay, were disasters, largely because the labels didn't trust their users--or one another. High subscription fees and poor selections turned off would-be customers; most skulked off to the underground services, such as Kazaa and Limewire, which had sprung up after Napster's demise...
...countries and at the same time try to embark on research into 'useable' nuclear weapons, (which) by the way would have half the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. The U.S. says you no longer have a role in Iraq. What is your view? We could close the nuclear file faster than the U.S. team, and for less money. We have the experience. We know where to go. We know the scientists. And we have credibility. In March, we said that we needed a few months to finish the job. Had there not been a war, we would be done...
...look at some LP covers from the 70s and 80s, there is some gorgeous artwork,” he says, whereas an MP3 file “just floats” without a visual or physical anchor...