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...additional powers that undermine the already weak fair use doctrine, the ability to use the existing pool of creative work to new ends—to publish documentaries that include stock footage and write songs that include samples of other songs, for example—is in grave peril. And if you were to ask Mr. Glickman, he would surely explain that the movie industry and all the wonderful creative engines behind it are on the verge of being overrun by pirates who are robbing honest workers of the money they need to feed their families. If no one will...
Drugstore.com is the only online health-products retailer to survive the dotcom bust. It has, alas, never posted a profit--and in September announced it would miss third-quarter sales and profit forecasts. Enter Lepore, 50, as new chairwoman and CEO. Lepore knows plenty about the Web's peril and potential: she was chief information officer and then vice chairwoman of online broker Charles Schwab, which flew high in the 1990s but suffered when the stock market sank. She is predictably optimistic about her new company, which has seen sales grow from $110 million in 2000 to an estimated...
...scale. Re-enter Osama bin Laden. The irony could not be richer, the circle more complete. By reminding us of 9/11 and the war on terrorism, bin Laden invoked the only thing that could trump Iraq--and save the President. His chilling reappearance reminded us of our peril, put Iraq in perspective and played precisely to the President's success and strength--success and strength that he so squandered in Baghdad. Bin Laden was never one to remotely understand the American mind--he spectacularly misjudged 9/11--and he pulled his nemesis over the finish line...
...Review was often not an easy read, but people who needed to know Asia skipped it at their peril. It took equally seriously the plight of hill tribes in Bangladesh and adjustments in monetary policy in Malaysia. Under the protection of British laws in Hong Kong, it was able to deliver genuine, often hard-hitting news to readers in countries where the media had no freedom or were heavily regulated-and, until the late 1980s, that was the case in most of Asia. The Review had a discernibly expat, Hong Kong-centric perspective-Southeast Asia always seemed more important than...
...have a chilly demeanor and a long, sad face that comes from growing up among good people who told me I was going straight to hell. I'm not a salesman cheerful certainty makes me uneasy. Nonetheless, last winter, moved by a sense that the beloved country is in peril, I put aside other projects, wrote a political book, knocked on doors and handed out literature (now I know how Jehovah's Witnesses feel), donated a bucket of money and stood up and made stump speeches about the disastrous regime in power, its moral bankruptcy and arrogance. Now, on election...