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...Elvis Presley died, a compilation of 30 of his No. 1 hits debuted at the top of the charts. Chances are, most Elvis fans already have Heartbreak Hotel, Return to Sender and Love Me Tender in their record collections, but apparently more than 500,000 of them couldn't resist the opportunity to have them all on one disc. The album also provided an occasion for the world to share a rare moment of international consensus, as it also reached No. 1 in the U.K., Canada, France, Brazil, Australia, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates, among other countries...
...million last year. On Oct. 28 the sport's representatives will meet in London to discuss how to make the racing more fun and bring back the fans. Ferrari - which spends an estimated $390 million a year to win - and the other big teams, Williams and McLaren, will resist change. But since the Prost team went bust last year, and Orange-sponsored Arrows is likely to follow suit, Formula One has to bite the bullet, now. Archive: Schumy the Great THE BOURSE Insolvency, She Wrote Deutsche Bank paid €667 million for a 40.3% share in Axel Springer, Europe...
...President Summers wanted the Law School to cave,” she said. “We could not find anywhere the will to resist Summers...
...That, at least, is the view of the shipping companies and operatorsthat locked out their 10,500 dockworkers on the West Coast after accusing them of staging a slowdown to resist the introduction of much-needed new technologies. Within days, the $300 billion in cargo that each year surges through the 29 Pacific ports had come to a standstill. Some 160 ships loaded with everything from bananas to Nissan 350Zs began stacking up around the harbors of San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Seattle while idling truck drivers were loaded down with wine, apples and cotton...
...with Hanson, Hanson is clearly right to refuse this encounter, just as 50 years ago those charged with harboring certain thoughts, no more refutable than this one, would have been wise not to appear in a different “House,” had they the ability to resist doing...