Word: secret
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What was the Rothschilds' secret? Commercial genius and intermarriage. Rothschilds married Rothschilds; first cousins wed first cousins; and in one case an uncle took his niece as his bride. The 19th century was ignorant of the genetic risks--and in that respect, as in others, the Rothschilds were lucky. Close breeding kept the fortune cohesive. It ensured a unity of decision making and cooperation among the family's five great banking houses--the world's first multinational, with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna and Naples...
Amazon has managed to hold that early lead, amassing a base of 4.5 million customers that is the envy of the "e-tailing" world. Service has been its secret weapon. Its website deftly mixes simplicity with depth, offering book reviews and personalized recommendations. Orders automatically generate a thank-you e-mail. And Amazon will hunt down any title you can't find, even out-of-print books, with the friendly zealousness of a small-town Midwesterner giving you directions to the doughnut shop. "Word of mouth is incredibly powerful online," explains Jeffrey Bezos, 34, Amazon's founder...
...Wish" is indicative of the more troubling of the new trends in Springsteen's music. Certainly, he has moved away from musicality and towards narrative, but it seems that--in certain instances, most notably his "Secret Garden" hit from the Jerry Maguire soundtrack--Springsteen has also made moves in the opposite direction, towards slickly produced, saccharine songs with depressingly banal messages...
...pretentiousness or even ofridiculousness: The Ghost of Tom Joad is analbum with source credits that include scholarshipon migrant workers, Steinbeck's Grapes ofWrath and John Ford's Grapes movie.Springsteen has arrived at some type of mediaalchemy, his songs associated with movies--all ofhis recent hits, "Philadelphia," "Dead ManWalking" and "Secret Garden," have come offsoundtracks--and even, on the fourth disk ofTracks, quoting directly from Pete Dexter'sscreen-adapted novel Paris Trout and fromfilm critic Pauline Kael...
WASHINGTON: Like a family's dirty little secret, General Augusto Pinochet is haunting Washington's corridors of power. "The U.S. government is deeply divided over what policy to pursue in response to Pinochet's arrest," says TIME correspondent Adam Zagorin. "Right now that policy is in flux." On Monday State Department spokesman James Rubin promised the U.S. would "declassify and make public as much information as possible" over human rights abuses in Chile under Pinochet; then on Wednesday he said that meant only that the U.S. would "review" the those documents. Rubin's shuffling is reflective of a fierce debate...