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...Kevin Gore, president of Universal Classics, sees him as the latest key to the cash tills. "Russell is a phenomenal communicator," says Gore, "and that ability to communicate with an audience unfamiliar with your music is what makes stars of all of these big-selling artists." A major U.S. launch is set for Watson in April. Gore promises that "The Voice," as he is marketed, will be seen "everywhere in America. Basketball games, football games, unexpected places all over the country." Evidently not including opera houses...
...contacted by TIME, Sloan admitted, "I don't have a scientific background. I'm pure business. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't here to make a dollar out of it. But I would like to see organ cloning become a reality." He was inspired to launch the business, he says, after a young cousin died of leukemia. "There are megadollars involved, and everyone is racing to be the first," he says. As for his own slice of the pie, Sloan says he just sold his firm to a French company, which he refuses to name...
...think the hit delivered to Iraqi radars last week looked tough, stay tuned. There may be more to come. Three years ago, a group of hawkish national-security mavens publicly called on President Clinton to launch an all-out U.S. air war and a proxy ground war to topple Saddam Hussein. Several of those experts are now on the Bush team, including Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his designated deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, and the nominee for No. 2 at the State Department, Richard Armitage...
...music companies may have their own plans. Vivendi Universal and Sony Music are jointly planning to launch a subscription-based online music service by year-end. And there is the problem of getting consumers to pay. Many companies have tried to convert websites from free to fee; consumers generally respond by going from free to flee...
...wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq with an artillery battery weaving through minefields. "It was wild--the atmosphere was kind of like Three Kings," he says, referring to the 1999 movie. During the long stretches of downtime, he started writing songs and, when he was discharged two years later, decided to make another run at recording...