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...complaint about RealAudio 1.0 was that sound quality was sacrificed too much. Progressive Networks claimed that the sound quality was as good as an AM broadcast radio. Unfortunately, it sounded like WBZ 1040 sounds when you're driving through the Sumner Tunnel...
More than 70 years ago, two tiny hamlets stood virtually side by side at the edge of the central Florida swamps. One of them, Sumner, was populated completely by whites. The other, Rosewood, more prosperous and civilized, was almost entirely black. During the first week of 1923, the citizens of the former community rose up against the latter, razing most of it, killing many of its residents and driving off the rest of them. In a matter of days, a ghost town was created...
...this matter with a lot of very obvious, very movieish fictions. Some of this was doubtless inevitable. Like the terrible end of the story, its ludicrous beginnings--a trampy white woman falsely accuses an anonymous black man of brutally assaulting her, thereby whipping up a mob spirit in Sumner--is known and powerfully shown. What is not available in the historical records is anything very specific about the people, victims and victimizers alike, who lived this story. Nor, apparently, does it offer a suitably heroic figure on whom to center audience attention or a suspenseful and emotionally releasing climax...
...with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...Sumner says plenty of options were described during his interview and that he is not worried about his ability to find a way to repay his loans...