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...with Beijing started on the wrong foot. The Australian-born mogul declared in 1993 that satellite-television networks, like the Hong Kong--based Star TV venture that he had purchased, would pose "an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then he has danced more carefully to Beijing's tune. Soon after his provocative comment, China's leaders insisted that he remove the BBC from Star TV's menu of channels after it aired a program critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. Murdoch complied, and has gone further since. On his orders, News Corp.'s publishing arm, HarperCollins, dropped a book...
...promises we can't keep," she assures the Dresden crowd. "We're just telling you in plain and simple language what we're going to do." As she finishes, the strains of the Rolling Stones' 1973 hit Angie fill the air. The song has become Merkel's theme tune in a campaign that has her Christian Democratic Union (cdu) and its Bavarian sister party, the csu, 14 points ahead of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his Social Democratic Party (spdYet the polls also show two other trends: a surprisingly large number of Germans say they don't know...
...says. "He's not able to conjure up another flood, and the Iran attempt is dead in the water." Schröder and the spd could still get a boost if the cdu continues to sabotage itself. Merkel has to hit the right notes, and keep her colleagues in tune; otherwise, voters may yet find an unintended meaning in her campaign theme: "Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said goodbye...
...trend in which grunge-ish bands crank up the elastic disco bass and coax fans to dance is rock's most pleasant development since Creed broke up. This bouncy tune about a woman with "a million ways to be cruel" is the catchy song of the summer...
Four Tet's electronic maestro Kieran Hebden loops and layers a series of joyous chirps and cymbal crashes until an honest-to-goodness tune emerges, then he moves it around with the dexterity of a veteran shell gamer...