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...handful of enterprising entrepreneurs find that attitude anachronistic. They're trying to make space in Asia's $5.2 billion music market for legal downloads. In 1999, Sudhanshu Saronwala quit his job as the managing director of MTV Asia to co-found the Singapore-based online-music store Soundbuzz. The venture made little progress for four years, but after iTunes proved a commercial success last year, Saronwala is trying again. "The labels have seen that online can be a real, viable distribution channel," says Saronwala. "The domestic labels as well as the internationals?everybody has pretty much embraced it wholeheartedly." Soundbuzz...
BUSH Sure, of course. It's very difficult to quit...
...ever quite sure where al-Sadr stands. The rebellious Shi'ite cleric is a master of the mixed message, and last week he flipped so often between vows of violence and offers to negotiate that even when the two-week-old standoff between his Mahdi Army and combined U.S. and Iraqi-government forces seemed about to end, it wasn't clear if it had. Did he really intend to quit the shrine? Or was he actually planning to resume combat, as he later urged his followers, against the enemy forces still poised outside? As one of his spokesmen, Sheik Ahmed...
...moving up from Youth and Sports Minister, made his fortune by buying state enterprises at fire-sale prices in the early 1990s. In a party vote, he beat an old-guard politician named Peter Kiss by a margin of 40% after Peter Medgyessy, the former PM, officially quit. Although lacking in experience, Gyurcsany is not lacking in confidence. "He believes in himself and he believes he can win, and maybe that will make others believe," a senior party organizer told TIME after the ballot. "He's a risk, but he is the only chance we've got." Support...
...Fridman, 28, had not been favored to write the new, golden chapter to his country's somber Olympic history. He'd won a bronze in Atlanta, then failed to qualify for Sydney and quit the sport. But early retirement was not an ending the "sportaholic" could stomach, even if his stoic demeanor hid it, says his longtime girlfriend, Michal Peleg. "He doesn't like to lose. At anything. You know the saying ?the calm before the storm'? That's him - and there is a storm." It stirred in 2002, when Fridman came back to the sport and won the world...