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That failure is strange because the Democrats have seen the changes coming from a long way off. It was Clinton, after all, who played the sax on Arsenio and talked about his underwear on MTV. The Democrats invented the war room, having learned from the evisceration of Dukakis that every attack must be answered. In some ways, Kerry's team has adapted to the new world. When rumors of an affair with an intern swirled last February, Kerry followed the cardinal rule: Don't elevate rumors into a story in the mainstream press. He went on Don Imus' radio show...
KNOWN FOR: Shaking her killer booty on MTV...
...handful of enterprising entrepreneurs find that attitude anachronistic. They're trying to make space in Asia's $5.2 billion music market for legal downloads. In 1999, Sudhanshu Saronwala quit his job as the managing director of MTV Asia to co-found the Singapore-based online-music store Soundbuzz. The venture made little progress for four years, but after iTunes proved a commercial success last year, Saronwala is trying again. "The labels have seen that online can be a real, viable distribution channel," says Saronwala. "The domestic labels as well as the internationals?everybody has pretty much embraced it wholeheartedly." Soundbuzz...
...those interested in revving up, the chair can also stimulate. "You can see an exciting movie, watch a concert, or just watch MTV and feel like you're there," Tan says. Sound from the TV or hi-fi translates into pulses in the chair, allowing daredevils to feel like they're swinging from the rooftops with Spiderman, while dancers can shake it with OutKast without ever getting up from the chair. Osim introduced the iSymphonic AV in Asia this spring, and a version without the video hookup will hit Britain and Ireland this winter for around $6,300. But buyers...
...also taking heat from gay activists for his violently homophobic lyrics. His song Damn includes the lyrics, "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays." And the activism seems to be working. A campaign called Stop Murder Music, launched by London-based OutRage, forced MTV to cancel an Aug. 28 performance in Miami by the Grammy Award--winning reggae artist. With the help of OutRage, activists in New York City are protesting performances by Beenie Man and three other artists scheduled for Sept. 3. In all, 30 Beenie Man and other reggae artists' shows...