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...really speaks for the working class? There are many ways to define this slice of the population, but the one that makes the most sense in political terms is to think of it broadly as those white Americans who lack a college degree. Once the Democratic stalwarts whose sense of economic self-interest sustained Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal coalition, working-class whites were the patriotic, the churchgoers--and, yes, many of them were hunters--who began to drift from the Democratic Party in the turbulent 1960s and later became the margin of victory for Ronald Reagan. They have never...
...this is a blog making fun of white culture - albeit a very specific slice of urban elitist white culture - and it completely implicates me. What's going on here? Was my dad right when he fretted that I was bougie and sididdy as a child? Was my boyfriend Keirn, now fiancé, right when years ago he, without thinking, turned to me in a black nightclub and said - I am not joking - "We're the only white people here...
...major record companies have the most to sort out. The problems at EMI, the smallest of the Big Four record companies, have been getting more ink lately than its artists, which include the likes of Lily Allen and Coldplay. With EMI's slice of the world market under pressure - its share fell to 12.8% in 2006 from 13.6% the previous year - U.K. private-equity company Terra Firma acquired the firm for $6.5 billion last August. The new owner has been quick to make its mark: earlier this year EMI announced it was axing as many as 2,000 jobs...
Still, high-profile departures like theirs could lead fresh talent to think twice about signing to one of the majors. And persuading established artists to stick around is especially tricky when labels are asking for a bigger slice of the revenue pie. Traditionally, when record companies signed an artist, they bought into the promise of an album; an act's other sources of cash - its concerts, say, or merchandise sales - weren't any of the label's business. But now, with album sales plummeting, music companies are chasing juicier income from touring and branded goods. Part of that revenue stream...
...divorce from Mills in July 2006, the world's media has done its best to cover the case, even though the proceedings were held in private. Despite her protestations of contentment at the outcome, Mills can't have enjoyed listening to the judgment. True, she emerged with a greater slice of his 400 million pound assets than the musician felt appropriate. McCartney originally proposed giving Mills 15.8 million pounds. But she had asked for a whopping 125 million. Her expectations - and her reputation - have taken a battering...