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...world where free usually means worthless, many in the industry can't stomach the idea that one day consumers could pick up the new Eminem album with every packet of M&M's. But one man's freebie is another man's fortune. Prince was reportedly paid $500,000 over and above the royalties for each CD - typically around 10%. Considering that his last album, 3121, sold only 80,000 copies in the U.K., this deal may have earned him more than eight times as much. Plus, Planet Earth - which has gotten fairly good reviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Prince's Free CD Ploy Worked | 7/18/2007 | See Source »

Originally drafted by Nashville in 2005 as the 176th overall pick in the sixth round, Nashville owned Maki’s rights for the final two years of his college career. His recently-signed two-year contract gives him $40,000 annually at the minor league level and $475,000 a season if he makes the Predators’ top squad...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Hockey Stars Maki, Grumet-Morris Ink Deals With Nashville | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...also helped her younger sister pick out a few classes ahead of time in addition to helping her begin planning her schedule...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Incoming Freshman Already a Junior Miss | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

Daniel R. Jou ’08, Donna’s brother, said that he and his family were suspicious of the man, someone that none of them “had ever seen before,” when he came to pick Donna...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Search Continues For Student's Missing Sister | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...could pay tremendous dividends if the Republicans are foolish enough to nominate Rudy Giuliani," says Richard Land, the Southern Baptist Convention's political guru. While a Mitt Romney nomination might suppress evangelical turnout, he says, as long as there is a basic difference over abortion, socially conservative voters will pick the pro-life candidate. "But if you take the abortion issue off the table," Land predicts, "then a lot of these other issues get oxygen they aren't getting now, such as the environment and social justice and racial reconciliation, all of which Evangelicals care about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Democrats Got Religion | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

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