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...Benito's reign of terror created an untenable situation not only for those of us who had over the years constructed a modus vivendi with the established bullies, but also for those bullies themselves, who were now vulnerable to unthinkable humiliation at the hands of the brutish child...
...enough to make you think the era of pay-to-play music downloading has finally dawned. Spurred on by the MusicNet deal, Sony and Vivendi Universal hastily announced that their licensing service, known as Duet, had found its first customer in the shape of Yahoo. MTV.com said it had done its own deal with all five major labels. And Microsoft hopped on the bandwagon with the radio-style site MSN Music. Result: in just one week "the landscape changed 100%," says Eric Scheirer, digital-music analyst at Forrester Research...
...exactly an A-list crowd. Courtney Love, who's suing her label, Vivendi Universal, for unfairly locking her into a long-term deal, won't be there. Olivia DeHavilland, the mid-century movie goddess who cracked the studio system with a similar suit in 1945, has since passed on. But Henley, in particular, wants to use the rise and fall of Napster as a jumping-off point for a larger debate about artists' rights and the traditional label system...
...Look for a plethora of interactive services. Vivendi Universal's Canal Satellite and rival TPS already offer a way to alert football fans watching one game that a goal is about to be scored in another. Thanks to a 30-second delay, the viewer can switch to the other game, watch the goal, then click back again. Before long these fans will also - with a click of the remote - be able to find out where European stars Luis Figo or Fabien Barthez bought their soccer shoes and order some just like them. The Amsterdam office of Forrester Research predicts sales...
...goods and investment, making each the other's most important market. Who's the biggest employer in France after the government? The 1,250 American companies operating there. What were the top movies in Germany last week? Mel Gibson's What Women Want and the Hollywood thriller Hannibal. Vivendi owns Universal, Daimler owns Chrysler, and top Daimler executives (like many in multinational European companies) are required to speak English. It's true that Hispanic and Asian immigration and business ties are shifting America's focus to the south and west, and that all the transatlantic cultural overlap may obscure enduring...