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...first A-list recording artist to leave a traditional label for a truck full of Live Nation cash. Madonna announced a 10 year, roughly $120 million deal in 2007, while U2 revealed a 12 year touring and merchandising partnership earlier this week. Still, luring Jay-Z is a major coup for the publicly traded Live Nation. He is not only one of the world's top-selling rappers and concert draws, he's a former record company president. "If the [ex] president of Def Jam decides it's time to get off the sinking ship," says a producer...
...agenda. General Dan McNeil, commander of the alliance's 43,250 soldiers in Afghanistan, has lobbied for another troop surge to help battle the rising insurgency in the country's south. But lower-level commanders on the ground have something else to add to that wish list. Says one: "Frankly, defeating the Taliban is the least of our worries. They are not going to beat us. What is killing this country is corruption and drugs. That is not for NATO but for the Afghan government to deal with." Some 8,000 more troops, which would constitute the two brigades that...
...course, admitting this is taboo, as Delahunty learned two years ago. She was in marathon committee meetings, stacking glorious girls on the waiting list while less accomplished boys wiggled through, when she got an e-mail informing her that her own daughter had been wait-listed. The experience inspired her to write a confessional Op-Ed, "To All the Girls I've Rejected," for the New York Times, responses to which lit up her inbox. "It pissed off the feminists and the misogynists--I got both sides of the spectrum," she told me. "The misogynists said women already have...
...Prospective students need to find the school that’s the best match for them and their aspirations,” he said. “That involves more than simply looking at a list of numerical rankings...
...painstaking debate raged on: Could they write their names and choices on pieces of paper? Should they have a voice vote? Could they cover their name and choice on the list so the next person could not see how they had voted? By 2:30 p.m., one of the volunteer parliamentarians roaming the expo center was called in. "Your vote is to be open at the time it is cast," Christopher Duke, 20, a college political science major, advised the group...