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...Napster's college-student users, this pact means several things. First of all, we can expect that sometime in the next few months, all Bertelsmann content (like Santana and Christina Aguilera) will be pulled from the free Napster service and moved to a premium service. Expect to pay between $10 to $25 a month to subscribe. The rest of the songs on Napster will remain free, which leads us to two possible alternatives. Under the first alternative, the record companies will individually put up their own competing subscription sites, which will be so disastrous for everyone that the record companies...
...record because the blood between them is so bad. But Gore's polling shows that even people who think the economy is great are slow to give the government, much less the Vice President, any credit for it. Besides, in a race in which authenticity is at a premium, the populism is real to him. It takes him back to where he started in politics. "Al Gore inherited a fighting streak for the underclass from his father," says longtime Gore adviser Roy Neel. "If you were a poor factory worker with a backyard satellite dish in rural Tennessee as your...
Shareholders continue to be amply rewarded. GE is up modestly this year, while the Dow is down 8%. Call it the Welch premium. GE's remarkable ability to keep its stock rising means investors are willing to pay more for it. Currently, they pay $43 for every $1 of annual GE earnings. At Honeywell, investors before the announced takeover were paying a mere $21 for $1 of earnings...
...will be well trained and whip smart. Be he won't be Welch. Few CEOs have had any luck running conglomerates in the past decade, and no one else running an industrial behemoth like GE will get the Welch premium. It will erode, and the stock will lose some magic. On top of that, Welch's successor faces the daunting challenge of converting Honeywell's slower-growing businesses into the kind that expand 20% a year, as GE does...
...corporate-backed Cone Center. Even if Congress okays the move from HHS to the Education Department (President Jimmy Carter tried - and failed - to do the same), the change of responsibility will do nothing to ease Head Start's funding crisis. Space is at such a premium that currently only 54% of eligible poor students can enroll. "First we want to put the program in the right direction educationally," says Bush education adviser Sandy Kress. "Then we'll talk money...