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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Howard and Peter "Put-It-on-Credit" Costello would one day get a monument honoring their services to consumerism, wealth accumulation and fat profits. Perhaps a statue at every shopping mall or a team portrait in real-estate agencies would do the trick. Or maybe the banks could issue platinum credit cards celebrating the Liberal Prime Minister and Treasurer's contribution to the Swipe-It culture. They've had some luck, no doubt, but Howard and Costello have taken taxing and spending to audacious new levels, pushed away the poor's support struts, and launched their chosen people into hyper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Can Keep the Good Times Rolling? | 9/14/2004 | See Source »

...outside their homeland. Their first overseas album, Beautiful Energy, has sold more than 2 million CDs in Japan and hundreds of thousands more across Asia since last summer. A 32-date Japan tour last month sold out in 10 minutes, and a follow-up album, Shining Energy, has gone platinum since its release in March. "They're outselling the biggest Japanese stars," says Rei Miyazaki, an editor at the Tokyo-based music magazine Oricon. "Nobody thought a foreign band could ever do that, much less a Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dozen Roses | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...when he finally took the microphone, the multi-platinum artist sought to verify the title of his latest hit single, “I Know What You Want...

Author: By Andrew C. Esensten, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Busta Rhymes Rocks Harvard | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...spring, members of Harvard hip hop group Tha League shot footage for a video of their original song, “Stop Stop.” They take their music very seriously and their eyes are focused on the future—one that they envision as filled with platinum albums, red carpets and adoring fans...

Author: By Emily T. Sabo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Almost Famous | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

After spending months lobbying her fiancée for just the right Tiffany engagement ring with engraved platinum band and a massive 24k center stone, Angie C. Shoemaker ’05-’06 is now faced with the tricky task of convincing him that engagement rings are but ephemeral tokens of an eternal love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gossip Guy | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

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