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...Rick Shannon senses that something is wrong when the retired record producers he has been hired to find keep turning up freshly murdered--one with a fork still sticking out of his back. Shannon is a weeknight DJ at a classic-rock station in Vicksburg, Miss., who runs a detective agency by day. The case that drives this Southern-fried page-turner revolves around a dying cotton dynasty, an OxyContin-popping former football star and tapes of a late-night blues session that have been missing for 50 years. Fitzhugh's dialogue is as cool as a pitcher of iced...
Although Roth and co-founder Rick Bacher initially saw themselves as little guys leaping into a cutthroat restaurant world when they opened their first store in 2003, they have in a sense become Goliaths. They have even partnered with giants like Dodge, Old Navy and Quaker. To protect itself, Cereality has applied for trademarks for its name and about 50 slogans it uses in signs and ads. (Be careful next time you say, "It's always Saturday morning," or ask over the breakfast table, "What's in your bowl?") It has also applied for patents covering dozens of business processes...
...more positive game atmosphere.“It’s a nice change from the culture of sports where soccer moms are yelling at kids when they are five years old,” she says.But Co-Captain of the University of Colorado’s Ultimate Team Rick Hodges, says the open-ended structure of the game could lead to unfair outcomes. “When it works and you have a spirited game that was won or lost based on pure athletic talent it’s amazing...[but] the game can easily be ruined by individuals...
...Gone is the ability to fall back on the familiar, sunny formulations like the one offered earlier this month by Major General Rick Lynch, spokesman for the coalition forces in Baghdad: "When a government is formed and truly reaches out to the people, we believe you'll see a great decline in violent activities in Iraq." Obviously, that hasn't happened yet. Even Bush himself seems to concede that the milestones he once lauded were mere chimera. "Terrorists did not lay down their arms after three elections in Iraq, and they will continue to fight this new government," Bush noted...
When the group gathered in early 2004 to talk about a new album, none of the three sounded nearly that confident. "You could tell this thing had strengthened them personally but shaken them artistically," says producer Rick Rubin, famous for his work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beastie Boys and on Johnny Cash's haunting American series. "What turned me on, though, was that even though people were divided over what they said, people cared what they said, and that's a very strong position for an artist to be in. For the first time the girls, these...