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...biggest single act, has worked with Grainge for decades. "Making it in the United States is the biggest challenge of all for any British talent in the music business. He will need all his intelligence and skill to pull it off," he says. At a time when many major acts are breaking away from Universal, U2 has stayed loyal to the label, in part because Grainge has earned the respect of the band. "Lucian's advantage is that he has got a strong musical record of his own, so his opinion on a song, as well as business, is taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Universal Music's New Boss Keep the Hits Coming? | 3/3/2010 | See Source »

...Oscar ceremonies were traditionally funded by contributions from the major studios. But before the 25th Academy Awards, several of its primary financial supporters unexpectedly backed out.The Academy needed to secure another sponsor, or else to cancel the extravagance they’d planned. Just in time, RCA purchased the rights to broadcast the ceremony, and it was watched on NBC by the largest audience in the history of television at that time...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Widescreen to Flatscreen: Televising the Oscars | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...have is time / To bring back this bloodline of mine.” However, considering the fact that Rogue’s voice is sometimes inaudible over the band’s walls of sound, this weakness doesn’t seem to be a major concern for the band...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rogue Wave | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Naturally, candidates outside Uribe's alliance hope for major shifts in the electoral landscape. "If the President can't run, there will be a change in popular support," says Rafael Pardo, the Liberal Party's presidential candidate. Pardo believes traditionally Liberal voters who switched their allegiance to support Uribe will return to the Liberal Party. In any case, the candidates have precious little time to gear up for the vote. "It's clear the [debate over the term-limits] referendum did a lot of damage because it cost the electoral campaign almost a year of analysis, and a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia Gets Ready for Life After Uribe | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...Pacific coast about midway between the capital, Santiago, and Concepción, is thought to have involved significant vertical motion as well. Fortunately, no other countries in the Pacific Basin were affected by the Chile tsunami. "But it's hard to understand how the Chileans didn't foresee a major tsunami, at least for its own coast so close to the epicenter," says a U.S. geologist who asked not to be identified because he is still studying the Chile data. "Not only was this one of the most powerful earthquakes we've seen in years, its movement was mostly vertical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chile: Prepared for the Quake but Not the Tsunami | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

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