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...music's most embarrassing and closely watched episodes took a step toward conclusion last week with a secret deal between Bad Boy Records CEO SEAN ("Puffy") COMBS, one of rap's wealthiest moguls, and STEVE STOUTE, an executive with rival label Interscope. In April, Puffy and two bodyguards allegedly beat up Stoute after a disagreement over a music video in which Puffy appeared nailed to a cross...
McCain's status as a war hero--a label herejects but which his staff seems eager to exploitin campaign literature--doesn't hurt his chanceseither. McCain's campaign mailed 50,000 copies ofa biographical video to New Hampshire voters, mostof it devoted to his military career...
...Reagan (but without all that pesky ideology) while casting Al Gore as the pencil-neck child of the Establishment. During the 1980 G.O.P. primary, that thankless role was played (and this is what makes the whole thing so delicious) by W.'s father George Herbert Walker Bush. "That elitist label was so unfair," says George W.'s strategist, Karl Rove, who has to say that sort of thing or the Bushes will lash him to the Kennebunkport rocks at low tide. "But Gore is a true elitist--went to the best schools, lived in a hotel, doesn't really seem...
...attack on Stoute came as yet more bad news in a year in which Combs had already been fighting to steer his company, Bad Boy Records, out of its current doldrums. The bounty of multiplatinum hits from Mase, the Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy himself has tapered off, and the label's new releases have yet to pick up the slack. Albums by Faith Evans, Total and 112 were all expected to be strong hits, but so far only 112's Room 112 is approaching platinum. "By Puffy standards, a gold record is considered a flop," says an observer. And last...
...Despite claims by NATO officials that Slobo has been socking it away in not only Switzerland but Greece, Russia, Cyprus and Lebanon, the Swiss haven?t found any money yet. Which is no reason not to cooperate when you?re bending over backward to shake that "Hitler?s banker" label...