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...Jay Sean is an hour late, but the crowd gathered in the makeshift studio at MTV's Times Square headquarters doesn't seem to mind. Twenty-some twenty-somethings are sitting around the edges of the room when the spiky-haired British R&B star finally enters, causing more than one girl to lean forward. Sean is miked and seated in front of an MTV logo reminiscent of the Taj Mahal. The camera rolls, and the interview begins. Sean talks about being a kid and starting a band in England with his cousin, recording their first demo tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Desi Dollars | 7/6/2005 | See Source »

That's what the folks back at MTV are banking on too. "If you wanted to reach young South Asians, there hasn't been a branded, credible platform," says Nusrat Durrani, senior V.P. and general manager of MTV World. Voilą MTV Desi, which should air nationally in July. After Jay Sean's interview, he sticks around to pose for photographs with fans. "To me, it's been a long time coming," the singer says between autographs. "There is a massive market out there." Sean, an artist and an entrepreneur, pauses and then continues, "We make up one-fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing Desi Dollars | 7/6/2005 | See Source »

Armies too are being mobilized. Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice, a powerful conservative group based in Washington, plans to recruit Christian activists for the fight through his daily radio talk show, his weekly TV program and a massive database of followers. He will be telling people to flood Capitol Hill with telephone calls and messages of support for the President's nominee. Barely an hour after Bush announced the O'Connor resignation, Sekulow had sent an e-mail to 850,000 sympathetic souls. "We want people to prepare for a battle," he told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tipping Point? | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...Jimmy Buffett, Jay-Z and Avril Lavigne signed a brief supporting the record companies, while Heart, Brian Eno and Terence Trent D'Arby joined forces to support Grokster. It was a lineup that ensured no matter how the court ruled, the music at the victory party would suck."  --JON STEWART...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punchlines: Jul. 11, 2005 | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

...case may well have been retaliating against Wilson. "This was leading into a blind alley," says Jim Wheaton, who teaches media law at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. "If the Supreme Court had taken the case, it was likely to say there's no privilege, period." Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's journalism department, understood the logic of Time Inc.'s ultimate decision. "I find it hard to get worked up into the same outrage as others about the Time decision, which seems to me to be a practical decision," he told the Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Inc.: When to Give Up a Source | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

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