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...blazes new possibilities for established bands, it could also provide labels with a chance to redefine their business. The majors can still be influential and profitable by focusing on younger acts that need muscle to get radio play and placement in record stores, or they can continue the recent trend of signing mature acts to "360 deals," in which they participate in profits from nonrecord income streams like touring and publishing...
...such vehicles could be sold annually within the next few years, mostly in fast-growing markets like Brazil, China, India and Russia, says Abdul Majeed, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chennai (formerly Madras). "It's all about affordability and fuel efficiency," says Majeed. "The very cheap car is a trend big manufacturers can't miss...
...This trend is spreading to some surprising places. When French carmaker Renault introduced the midsize Logan in 2004, it expected to sell the bulk of the basic sedans in Eastern Europe. But the Logan, which Renault builds in Romania and Russia and costs as little as $7,200--about 40% less than rival sedans--quickly took off in wealthier Western Europe as well. The car now sells in more than 50 countries, and Renault is struggling to meet demand. "Our aim is to produce the most affordable car in its segment, and because we're doing that well...
...hoopster rocked college sports when he announced that he would play basketball at USC--in four years. He hadn't even picked a high school at that point. Boatright, now a freshman at East Aurora High outside Chicago, is the face of the latest alarming trend in the often shady game of college-sports recruiting: coaches offering scholarships to athletes very early in their schoolboy (and schoolgirl) careers. It requires teens to make a critical decision before they even grasp geometry. "It's one big circus," says Dave Telep, who covers the recruiting scene for Scout.com a website specializing...
...Pretty valid points, I suppose. But there is something eerily chilly about them that demonstrates a very bad trend for race relations. For columns that appear to be taking the “black side,” they are oddly similar to the ones that don’t. The dismissals claim that blacks are irrationally supporting Vick because they want to make excuses for one of their own (and that’s just what they do). These others claim that blacks are irrationally supporting Vick because they’ve been trained to see racism...