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...high costs for things like infrastructure and credit-card fees, sales volume must but doesn't yet compensate. "It's not a way to make a lot of money," acknowledges Jobs. No, it's a way to help sell iPods. Apple says sales of the music-storing, high-profit-margin palm-size gadgets almost quadrupled between the quarters before and after iTunes' launch. Apple's approach borrows from a proven business tactic. "Westinghouse created radio shows to sell radios," notes Lee Black, an analyst with Jupiter Research. AOL Music takes a cut from songs sold through MusicNet...
Harvard also got a preview of Brown’s squad, which finished third but beat the Crimson by a narrower margin than last year...
...Reed, a Democrat and West Point graduate who served with the 82nd Airborne, argues that the Pentagon needs to convert seven National Guard brigades--some 20,000 troops--into active-duty forces. Reed, an increasingly influential player in Congress on defense matters, thinks that would give the military the margin it now lacks in case North Korea or some other nation acts up. Another approach would be to create a new division from the ground up--not the kind that seizes ground and flanks the enemy but one specially designed for peacekeeping, a role the Army has traditionally been reluctant...
...Aliyev family. He consolidated power, created an updated version of a Soviet ruling party, and was returned to office in elections that were widely condemned for what the U.S. called "numerous, serious irregularities." Had his health held up, he would have been re-elected again this year "by whatever margin he chose," the former envoy says. Aliyev's greatest successes are the creation of his own power base and the establishment of a superficial calm after the bloody conflicts of the early '90s. He leaves few other achievements. He positioned himself as a pro-Western leader, cracking down on alleged...
...Still, the Green machine, such as it is, concerns many Democrats. "We've got to get together with them," worries a prominent Democratic fundraiser, who, like many in his party, believes that if Bush is to be beaten, it will be by a very narrow margin. Green Party registration has grown from 200,000 in 2000 to 280,000 now, with the number of Greens elected to various public offices jumping from 80 to 179 in the same period - and this despite the fact that opinion polls consistently show the environment lagging behind the economy, terrorism, education and other issues...