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...iTunes did not offer an equivalent to the DRM-free material you could get on Napster," Nesson said. "It took years of people like Steve Jobs, people on the industry for them to realize how stupid...
...remember when I was younger, he took my 'Thriller' album that I had just gotten and said, 'I need this thing! I need to understand this Michael Jackson person,'" Elisabeth recalled. "After listening to the album three times, he came down from the attic and joked, 'I don't understand why Michael Jackson is such a big deal...
Perhaps the Minutewomen took the physical strategy too far, as the Crimson was able to end Massachusetts’ 14-0 run with consecutive trips to the line by freshman Elle Hagedorn and sophomore point guard Brogan Berry...
...advisers in December was what to do with the 40 to 50 Yemeni detainees who were deemed by the task force to be safe for sending back to Yemen for eventual release under the right circumstances. The officials decided that circumstances militated against sending the men home. "We all took a look at Yemen and said, Man, this stinks," says a senior State Department official. "Normally when you repatriate [detainees] to a government that is competent, they keep an eye on them. In Yemen the government has less capacity [to do so]. We'd be negligent if we were ignoring...
...Balawi wasn't given even a rudimentary security screening speaks to the credibility he had built up over time, feeding valuable information to Jordan's General Intelligence Department, a trusted CIA partner. "This was an extremely sophisticated, well-thought-out operation," a former senior intelligence official told me. "It took years to set up. And quite frankly, we didn't think al-Qaeda had that capability." (Several intelligence sources told me they thought the operation was run out of the al-Qaeda high command - Osama bin Laden's headquarters - which would make it a departure from the recent trend...