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...host agreed. But once she was backstage, she was told the pact would be broken—race was simply too exciting not to talk about, her interviewer opined...
...Macedonia the lead actor for now is the European Union. The full panoply of the E.U.'s unwieldy foreign policy apparatus was funneled into Skopje last week: High Representative Javier Solana, Commissioner Chris Patten, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and Bodo Hombach, special coordiNATOr of the Stability Pact. All left behind strong messages of support for the Macedonian government, while urging it to speed up its desultory efforts to meet longstanding Albanian demands for better political and economic standing in the country...
...ever wrong. Back in November, I wrote an op-ed in this newspaper celebrating the beginning of a new era in the distribution of music. Napster had just signed a pact with the record label Bertelsmann, and it looked as if the rest of the Big Five labels would follow suit shortly. Napster would set up a subscription service, I predicted, and you and I would never buy another CD at Tower Records again...
...Napster prevailed, we could have avoided this wretched mess. With the illicit but compelling market power of its 50 million users, Napster might have muscled agreements with the other record labels similar to its Bertelsmann pact. Still tiny relative to the rest of the recording industry, Napster would slowly but surely have been transformed into a profitable way to distribute music while benefiting artists, labels, consumers and Napster itself. All this would have been possible, if only the law had worked just a little bit slower. Yet thanks to our speedy and efficient legal system, it's now highly doubtful...
Like the Amish in Witness, these Socialists in Gallagher's extended family experience life more fully because they believe so deeply. Devoted readers of the Daily Worker, Stalinists to the end ("the pact with Hitler was a tactic, darling"), they sometimes look ridiculous but steadily buoy Gallagher with a bracing sense of connectedness. As a girl, she thought a portrait of Lenin hanging on the wall was a picture of her grandfather. Her summers at "worker's camp," where the oppressed were celebrated, provide wonderful memories, although political purity was strictly enforced: an extra slice of watermelon to a black...