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...music-industry bigfoots tiptoe trepidatiously into the digital age, they're obeying an old rule: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Witness Warner Music (corporate cousin of TIME.com) and BMG's settlement Thursday with their old young nemesis, MP3.com, over copyright infringements. The free-music upstart that wanted to turn the industry on its ear is now in bed with two of the industry's Big Five (the rest are expected to follow soon). The outlaw has been deputized. "Whenever the record industry sues someone, you know they're then going to make a deal," says TIME Digital...
...upstart campaigns of Sen. John S. McCain and former Sen. Bill Bradley drew passionate support from a small group of politically enthused students. But after those campaigns fizzled on Super Tuesday, students say the race lost that momentum...
Eliot led the pack in recycling, took the bronze in waste reduction, but finished next-to-last in power reduction--consistently our worst event. A decent showing overall, but not nearly enough to catch the upstart squad from Dunster...
...becoming a bloated, hairless, poisoned shell of yourself, without drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...
That is exactly how tiny Legend Airlines wants long-suffering refugees from major U.S. carriers to feel. Four turbulent years in the making, the four-plane upstart took off from its home base in Dallas last month with service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Washington. Its coveted clientele: business travelers who habitually pay last-minute fares on major airlines and are thus the industry's most profitable customers...