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...download tracks for $1.16 each from Soundbuzz's 250,000-plus song library, which Saronwala says should hit 500,000 by the end of the year. Most importantly, Soundbuzz has forged a partnership with Singapore-based computer audio hardware maker Creative, which aims to make its new Zen Touch MP3 player work as symbiotically with Soundbuzz as the iPod does with iTunes. "I think we will create a buzz," says Sim Wong Hoo, Creative's CEO. "I believe the MP3 market will be as big as the cell-phone market...
...Bleakley, a beverage industry analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston in London, says of Guinness's global reach: "Everyone used to think that Heineken was the Coca-Cola of beers, but Guinness has cracked that now." That's an optimistic view: Guinness, the world's best-selling stout, cannot touch Budweiser or Heineken in sales. Still, how has a 245-year-old brewer kept its edge in the modern world? The brewery at St. James's Gate still suffuses whole neighborhoods in the Irish capital with the rich smell of roasted barley, as it has for generations. The complex...
...wartime broadcasts for the Nazis while interned in Germany. He was not coerced, but he clearly misjudged the seriousness of his action. In Britain, politicians denounced him in Parliament and columnists in print. Libraries withdrew his books. The British government investigated him for treason, and editors wouldn't touch his writings with a cricket bat. The man whose vision of Britain is now engraved in the popular mind could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame...
...regretting that lapse. Even before the war ended, British officials dropped plans to prosecute Wodehouse, but the decision was not made public until after his death. He exiled himself to the U.S., where he was viewed with suspicion, and his stories of dukes and butlers were deemed out of touch. "I sometimes wish I wrote that powerful stuff the reviewers like so much, all about incest and homosexualism," he half-joked. Wodehouse lived in near-seclusion in Long Island, New York, with his wife Ethel (their daughter Leonora died in 1944) as he ground out yet more tales...
...SOCIETY FUNERALS: Celebrants bring a personal touch to burial rites...