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...Even after word of his talent began to spread, his road to success was plagued with potholes. He split with one manager over a Burger King Whopper - Eminem couldn't afford one and figured any manager unwilling to shell out for a client's lunch wasn't serious about the rapper's prospects. And while the opening scene in 8 Mile - in which his character suffers stage fright during a rap battle - may have been cinematically embellished, he "choked" in the finals of a 1997 battle in Ohio, returning to Detroit "depressed and totally broke...
...faced by a yawning chasm between urban and rural incomes and rising unrest in the countryside, the Chinese leadership has taken a cautious middle road, stopping short of allowing outright sale and purchase of rural land and instead approving the trading of the peasants' leases and extending terms beyond 30 years. That amounts to the right to sell in all but name and potentially frees up hundreds of millions of rural Chinese - until now second-class citizens in their own country - to head for the big city. China's urban dwellers may well wonder how they will cope as hordes...
...Democrats don't share their values because of hot-button culture issues like guns--he doesn't mention race--but he has an A rating from the NRA, and he considers himself the essence of Mississippi values. "I'm a mainstream Democrat, a rural Democrat, a middle-of-the-road Democrat," he says...
Davis does not claim to be middle of the road; he criticizes Childers for being middle of the road. Davis is a throwback to the small-government GOP revolutionaries of 1994, before they took power and discovered that Big Government had its perks. He believes the trouble with the Bush era has been overspending, and he's hammering away at Obama, Pelosi and the specter of a liberal counterrevolution that would turn health care over to the government. When I remind him that Medicare is a government program, Davis doesn't hesitate: "And look how great that turned...
...experiment is quintessential Lindstrom. The author, who spends 300 days a year on the road, teaching major companies how to market their brands, has an original, inquisitive mind. His new book is a fascinating look at how consumers perceive logos, ads, commercials, brands and products. Lindstrom conducted a three-year, $7 million neuromarketing study (sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline and Bertelsmann, among others) that measured the brain activity of 2,000 volunteers from around the world. Some of the results confirmed marketing-industry hunches; others flew in the face of conventional wisdom. A few findings from the well-traveled savant...