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Alwaleed believes the Far East can be hot for at least two decades, but he'll also turn his attention to Africa, which "needs everything." But he says he will not stray from the formula that turned $15,000 into $12 billion. "I would like to be viewed as this investor from the middle of the desert, who comes and adds value to companies," he says. "I get a kick out of finding industries that have spectacular potential. I look for companies that have solid brand names and sound management but are dirt cheap." As the prince can tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCE ALWALEED: THE PRINCE AND THE PORTFOLIO | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...logical turn of the wheel. In Broadway's golden era, the songs Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and others wrote for the stage were the same ones that sat atop the nation's hit parade. But with the advent of rock 'n' roll, pop and show music diverged. Though a stray Broadway hit might get radio airplay (Don't Cry for Me, Argentina), and a whiff of something like rock occasionally stirs the Great White Way (Rent), Broadway became a separate and self-contained musical domain, irrelevant to the most creative musicians of the rock generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: THE NEW SONDHEIMS? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...Barry Manilow tunes to soothe her. They have also cut off the electricity and the water supply--all to little effect. Neighbors have told police that Allen frequently canned food and stored bottled water because the well on her property had run dry. "We considered sending in a stray dog," says Terrance Gainer, director of the Illinois State Police, hoping that would distract her and calm her down. But then the police learned that she was not particularly partial to pets. Says Gainer: "If she'd just give me five minutes, I could talk her out. But she refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STANDOFF AT ROBY RIDGE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...concept of Jamaican reggae to another level by mixing heavily constructed R&B, rap and heavy bass beats. Radio D.J.'s love to play it, the kids on the street try to imitate it and the club floors pound with Shaggy's honey-coated voice. Midnite Lover does not stray from the typical Shaggy tradition; it works because it is Shaggy, rather than just another Jamaican reggae artist who is attempting to capitalize off of the commercialization of the music...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rico Suave With a Reggae Twist | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...with few exceptions--the popular Sidewalk and Internet Gaming Zone sites chief among them--MSN has failed to attract a mass audience. MSN executives have been shocked by how rarely customers stray beyond plain-vanilla E-mail and online access into the premium programming that was supposed to be the network's drawing card. According to an internal memo distributed last spring, the pay area's most popular channel at the time, Daily Disney Blast, was attracting a dismal 6,000 hits a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS MSN ON THE BLOCK? | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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