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When the hard stuff sold well (hard stuff, in any medium, always does), the record labels, never bastions of original thought, asked for more. Soon rappers who had never got a speeding ticket were referring to themselves as pimps and hustlas, and what had started as ghetto reporting with a touch of caricature metastasized into caricature with no tether to reality. The result was a torrent of albums about the joys of acquisitiveness (bling, if you must), consequence-free violence and compliant women...
...that value, Wendy's announced last month that it would sell as much as an 18% stake in Tim's by early next year. In Canada, where Tim's is bigger than McDonald's (2,492 stores vs. 1,375), the 41-year-old company dominates many small- and medium-size markets; it hopes to do the same in cities like Dayton, Ohio, and Detroit. Part coffee-and-doughnut joint, part sub shop, Tim's is confining its U.S. growth to the Northeast and Midwest, close to its base of operations in Ontario and with just enough stormy weather...
...across his message on aid to Africa at the G-8 summit [July 4-11]. Regardless of what political capital Blair gains by using music celebrities to call attention to Africa's poor, the essence of his message is that poverty must be eradicated. If music is the medium to rouse the Western world, so be it. Politicians aim to leave a legacy, and it's a good time for Blair to do so. Krishan Sapra Crawley, England Good from the Games Re "Why Back The Bid?" on why cities should think twice before wanting to play host...
...White House three decades later. But while Gore's political career may be over, his fascination with television is taking a new turn. Gore has reincarnated himself as an activist entrepreneur and is about to mount what could be his most ambitious campaign yet: to transform the medium itself...
...more open. "Our vision was then, and is now, to go from the old studio-based production model that is still used by everybody else out there, where a small group of people in a television studio makes the programming that everybody else watches, and go to a democratized medium where everybody has a chance to learn how to make television," he says. The network will even teach people how, with free online media training by veteran journalists, educators from journalism and film schools, and celebrities...