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...election battle in 2006, by boosting G.O.P. turnout and diverting Democratic resources. For a party trying to reach out to minorities, it doesn't hurt that Swann is an African American. The timing seems right: with both of the state's NFL teams legitimate Super Bowl contenders, football mania is high. Even Eagles fans might give the cross-state hero a break. At least he never played for the Dallas Cowboys. --By Sean Scully
Most of the memorable melodies of the album’s are found in the second half; the most exciting moment in the first half is “Cinémania,” a celebration of the movies that consists of a rattling list of movie stars, including some amusing pronunciations of famous names. Then Do The Bambi’s energy picks up, right when you’re getting sick of the digital age. While the simply-titled “Hungry!” explodes a minute and a half from the end with tremendous...
Forget the accounting scandals, the CEOs fending off fraud charges, the churning stock market. The business world has become obsessed with corporate nuptials. Merger mania is back, executives are cashing out and, if history is any guide, investors should be running for cover. A couple of months ago, Kmart and Sears got engaged. Then Nextel and Sprint announced their $35 billion wedding. Johnson & Johnson is buying Guidant, a maker of medical devices, for $24 billion. Two of the splashiest deals came last week: SBC, the Baby Bell based in San Antonio, Texas, looked poised to swallow its former parent...
...process, Armstrong, inspired by what he calls "the absurdity" of watching embedded journalists broadcast live from the middle of a war, came up with American Idiot, the deceptively upbeat title track that proclaimed, "Don't want to be an American Idiot/ Don't want a nation under the new mania." Then Dirnt composed a strange 30-sec. cabaret ditty, which Armstrong and Cool liked so much that they wrote their own 30-sec. additions. Soon they had the beginnings of the 9-min., five-part Jesus of Suburbia, which introduced both Jesus, a character struggling against the country...
Richard Li, the entrepreneurial son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more...