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...snap and swing - movement, like a jump-rope at top speed. Millions of lines over 80 years, and not one had an inappropriate stroke. There was drama in the contrast of those black lines on a white page - a bit less when it was reprinted on the Times' gray newsprint. Which is why you should look at his work in book form: the handsomely illustrated autobiography "Hirschfeld On Line," or, for about the price of a manicure, the Gotham-glorifying "Hirschfeld's New York" and the all-movie "Hirschfeld's Hollywood...
...Poverty is a relatively new experience for Nadam, a barrel-chested man with bristly gray hair and thick glasses. He has been a chauffeur all his adult life, for various government departments. He has never been rich, but until the economic sanctions on Iraq, he did reasonably well. Although he lost two sons in the war against Iran, he regarded himself content. At least, that's how he remembers it. "I had everything I needed," he says, simply. "It would have been wrong of me to want more...
Clutching a plastic carton of unfinished Greenhouse salad in one hand, a well-dressed student pulls a gray scarf around his collar and emerges from the Science Center into a stream of his peers...
...China. Most music-label executives won't talk about it on the record, and no one is monitoring the traffic. (BMG in New York would not comment for this article; EMI in London and Universal in Los Angeles declined repeated interview requests.) But it's clear this amorphous gray market is entrenched. The discontinued or surplus CDs, generally known as "cutouts" in the West, are in China called dakou (saw gash) because some albums have a telltale notch in the jewel box and sometimes on the disc itself. Many music buffs prefer them to pirated copies, because the prices...
...gray-market albums started showing up in major mainland cities, according to Giouw. The IFPI, which lobbies globally against piracy and copyright violations, traced the CDs to a single recycling company in northeast China and notified record companies. But, Giouw says, "at the time, none of the majors were concerned that it would have an impact on their business." Piracy was a much bigger issue. "This was the lesser evil," he explains. "Do you want these cutouts, or do you want pirates...