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...High the Moon For all the attention paid to Les Paul the technical innovator, not enough was paid to his skill as an arranger of guitar solos and vocal parts. Similarly, Ford didn't get her due as a singer. She looked the way she sang: smooth, clear, pretty. Her voice, tripled or sextupled in harmony, was the vocal version of his slide-guitar style. Her glissandi were intimate, as if she had been singing inside the microphone. (She was, in fact, the first vocal artist to sing not a foot or so away from the microphone, as most studio...
...might say, while the pay-for-content properties - movies and cable - are holding steady or growing. (His Internet assets, including MySpace, lost a third of their value. But to be fair, nobody has figured out how to make money from social networking yet.) So why not, he figures, get paid for all the content...
...ethics cop in a slightly less complaisant way. Two years ago, when Brown was a federal prosecutor, she squared off against then private attorney Eric Holder in a tense plea negotiation that cost Holder's client, Chiquita Brands International, a $25 million fine and an admission that it had paid off Colombian terrorists to protect its lucrative banana-growing business there. (Read "Terrorism and Bananas in Colombia...
...people simply looking for a place to live, though, deals abound. The house that the Robertses finally bought - with three bedrooms, granite countertops and textured walls - had been listed at $315,000 before its owners fell into foreclosure and the bank took over. The Robertses paid $169,000. "We never thought we'd be able to have such a nice house," says Jillian happily...
...nurse practitioner - bought a home in Boise's cottage-filled North End neighborhood in 1994. The Judges, members of that rare breed of Americans who stash a decent slug of income in savings, put down $50,000 and mortgaged the rest. A couple of years ago, they paid off the loan. "Friends used to say, you can cash out your equity and do so much stuff. You could travel," says Michael. "Well, instead of getting the four-wheelers and the boat, we paid off our house...