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LENGTH: 510 words Well From Tara Parker-Pope's blog, nytimes.com/well. More than a third of middle and high school students may be victims of sexual harassment by their classmates. The harassment -- which can include name-calling and unwanted touching -- is often largely dismissed by officials as normal student behavior. But the emotional toll appears to be even worse than physical bullying, according to new research published in the journal Sex Roles. From A--alire: Why hasn't anyone mentioned the parents? Teachers get one or two hours a day with these kids, administrators get even less. Molly Kolodny: Over the past several decades, as women have made gains in so many spheres, there has been a relentless, covert backlash: a re-characterizing of girls and women as sexual. Mary Rodriguez: The choice is not simply between ''zero tolerance'' and permissiveness .... When we take such either/or stands, we miss a chance to help young people develop an appreciation for appropriate social behavior. Dot Earth From Andrew C. Revkin's blog, nytimes.com/dotearth. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, described three troublesome trends that distinguish this century from the last, and exploding populations in poor regions topped his list. Interestingly, energy shortages (and climate change) were not on the list; the others were China's emergence and the growing divisions between the United States and Europe. From Steve Salmony: This issue of the unbridled propagation of the human species has got to be reasonably and sensibly acknowledged. How else can the family of humanity address and overcome the global threats to human and environmental health that are ominously looming even now? Julie Walsh: Though some often rant about how the world's population will grow 50 percent by 2050 and that, therefore, we will run out of resources and become cannibals, ... they never mention that the world's total population should reach only 10 billion and actually start declining around 2075, if not sooner. TierneyLab From John Tierney's blog, nytimes.com/tierneylab. I've been skeptical of some of the alleged evils of petroleum, but I bought into the recently popular idea among development experts that reserves of oil and other natural resources are a curse to many countries. What I saw while reporting in Iraq jibed with academic studies concluding that a wealth of natural resources did a country more harm than good. It was an appealing and clever counterintuitive idea -- but perhaps too clever by half. The easy money from natural resources, the theory went, helped finance civil wars and weakened civic institutions by enabling repressive governments to buy off opponents and stay in power. But a new report in Science argues that the causation goes the other way: the conflicts and bad policies created the heavy dependence on exports of natural resources. When chaos and economic policies scare off foreign investors and drive local entrepreneurs abroad to look for better opportunities, the economy becomes skewed.
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From that perch, Mr. Maloof was awed by the three slender towers of the Palms Hotel-Casino standing in the foreground of the Strip, all lit up and busily receiving young hipsters and celebrities for another happening weekend. ''It's a charge to see that,'' he recalled. ''That was one of the first times I really felt, 'Wow -- I did that.' And I was proud of it.'' Odds are good that at 43, Mr. Maloof and other Vegas entrepreneurs his age and younger have a lot more success coming. Whereas to most Vegas enthusiasts, names like Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian and Sheldon Adelson are synonymous with the city's most famous resorts, a new generation is poised to take over as the architects of a city under constant renovation. ''These kids are just so smart,'' said Mr. Wynn, 66, the chairman of Wynn Resorts and developer of the Mirage, Bellagio and Wynn Las Vegas resorts. He arrived here himself at 24 after having run his father's bingo parlors in Maryland. ''They will remake this city in their image. Of course, us old guys aren't done yet. But the new energy is nothing but exciting.'' Those ''kids'' includes Mr. Maloof, whose family also owns the Sacramento Kings basketball franchise; Frank Fertitta III, 46, and Lorenzo J. Fertitta, 39, who operate Station Casinos, which was founded by their father, as well as the burgeoning Ultimate Fighting Championship league. There is James J. Murren, 46, president and chief operating officer of MGM Mirage; Sam Nazarian, 32, the Los Angeles hospitality mogul who bought the Sahara Hotel-Resort in 2007; and Anthony A. Marnell III, 33, who is in a joint venture with MGM Mirage to build a $1.8 billion resort eight miles south of the Strip. And there is an investment group that includes the Vegas native and tennis legend Andre Agassi, 38; his agent, Perry Rogers; and Thomas C. Breitling and Timothy N. Poster, who bought and sold the Golden Nugget earlier this decade for a $100 million profit by their 36th birthdays. There is, it seems, something about the gambling business that has always drawn youthful leaders. J. Terrence Lanni, the chief executive of MGM Mirage, became chief financial officer of Caesars World, which owned Caesars Palace at the time, at 29. Gary W. Loveman became chief operating officer of Harrah's Entertainment at 38. As far back as 1946, Bugsy Siegel was just 40 when he built the Flamingo. ''There's nothing like bringing in young blood,'' said Anthony Curtis, publisher of the Las Vegas Advisor newsletter. ''Vegas has to reinvent itself again and again, and it has to appeal to new markets. The old-timers aren't going to really see the changes that are necessary.'' In each case, Mr. Curtis said, important innovations were made in the face of legions of doubters who were proved wrong. Mr. Maloof, for one, emphasized the nightclub and celebrity scene at the Palms, most notably making his mark by allowing his new resort to be the setting for the 2002 season of MTV's ''Real World.'' In 2004, Mr. Breitling, now 38, and Mr. Poster, now 39, followed suit by allowing their lives as owners of the Golden Nugget to be fodder for a reality show on Fox produced by Mark Burnett. Both moves introduced Las Vegas in a new, glamorous way to customers of their generation. The Fertitta brothers, who last year made Forbes magazine's billionaire list with net worths of $1.3 billion each, got there by expanding their father's inkling about the potential for catering to the residents of Las Vegas into a $9 billion, 16-casino enterprise that went private in 2007 in a partnership with Colony Capital. Station Casinos is poised to expand by virtue of a 110-acre site, named Viva, just west of the Strip where the brothers plan four casino-related developments. The company also has 80 acres sprawling south from their father's original property, Palace Station, but no plans have yet been devised. The starting point for many of these men is their family's fortunes and Las Vegas history. Mr. Maloof's father was a basketball team owner and beer distributor from Albuquerque who served Las Vegas resorts. Mr. Marnell's father is the city's premier general contractor and architect who built the Bellagio and the Wynn and who developed the Rio All-Suites Hotel-Casino. Mr. Rogers's father is the owner of the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas and six other TV stations; Mr. Poster's uncle was a top sportsbook oddsmaker. That history gives rise to a personal and professional collegiality unusual among industry rivals. The Fertitta brothers, for instance, own a 6.7 percent stake in Mr. Maloof's resort. Mr. Murren recommended the sale of the Golden Nugget to Mr. Breitling's group and approved the joint venture with Mr. Marnell. And, as Mr. Breitling describes in his new memoir, ''Double or Nothing,'' Mr. Rogers, 39, Mr. Poster and Lorenzo Fertitta became friends at the same Las Vegas parochial high school, and Mr. Fertitta befriended Mr. Breitling at the University of Southern California, which led to the Fertittas, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Agassi helping to finance the Golden Nugget purchase. It is enough for Mr. Murren, one of the few nonnative young moguls, to remark: ''There's certainly more nepotism and more incestuous behavior in the gaming industry than I've seen in other industries.'' But, he was quick to add, ''these guys have taken opportunities that many people squander, and have done more with them than most anyone I know.'' Mr. Murren is clearly of a different breed. Often cited as heir apparent to the 65-year-old Mr. Lanni, Mr. Murren was 36 in 1998 when he became chief financial officer of what was MGM Grand at the time. He takes credit for negotiating buyouts of Mirage Resorts in 2000 and Mandalay Resort Group in 2004. And he also came up with the plan to use 76 acres on the Strip for the CityCenter, an $8 billion development of six high-rises that is the nation's most expensive privately financed construction project. ''The other guys are cut from a different cloth than I am,'' said Mr. Murren, who was raised in Connecticut and earned an art history degree before veering into the investment world after an internship with a bank in Hartford. ''I'm the least knowledgeable person you'll talk to as it relates to gambling. I don't do it. I get up at 4:30 a.m. I'm asleep by 10 p.m. I've never been to the nightclubs. I don't go barhopping. I don't live that business.'' He may not need to, given his company's broad-based clientele, but Mr. Nazarian said that his generation's advantage is largely in knowing what the 40-and-younger crowd wants from Las Vegas. Mr. Wynn, Mr. Adelson and Mr. Lanni are building top-end resorts for wealthy, older people like themselves. ''If you ask me what is the best toy for a 10-year-old, I cannot tell you, but if you ask a 10-year-old, he'll tell you very well,'' said Mr. Nazarian, the chief executive of the SBE Entertainment Group, which bought the Sahara, the former haunt of the Rat Pack, for a reported $400 million in March 2007. He plans to reinvigorate it by having Philippe Starck redesign it and by adding outposts of the California restaurant and nightclub brands he owns. Lavish new projects near the Sahara will ''price a lot of people out of the market by 2011 or 2012,'' he said. ''I want to offer an affordable hotel with rates between $150 and $250 that's unbelievably chic and unbelievably creative.'' While there is clearly a rivalry between the young and old guards, Mr. Breitling is surprised by how paternal the elders are. Mr. Wynn, who once owned the Golden Nugget, dined with Mr. Breitling and Mr. Poster after they bought the place and regaled them with old Vegas tales. ''It's this interesting camaraderie in this industry,'' said Mr. Breitling, who along with Mr. Poster, Mr. Agassi and Mr. Rogers is on the hunt for another shot at the Las Vegas game. ''When we ran into these people after we sold the Golden Nugget, they give us the congratulations and say, 'We hope you guys stay in the business.' ''
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Late Edition - Final Paid Notice: Deaths NICHOLS, CICELY SECTION: Section B; Column 0; Classified; Pg. 7 LENGTH: 175 words NICHOLS--Cicely, 70, activist, editor, writer, entrepreneur. Her West Village, NYC home was a hub for a broad range of artists, musicians, writers, intellectuals, and activists at the heart of numerous movements. She was a leader in the fight for justice and inspired others to believe in themselves, each other, and their dreams. Memorial: 6:30pm, May 11, Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St. No flowers; please give to cancer research by Dr. Herbert Chen, information: gastrinoma@aol.com, 608-263-2434. Vote Obama! NICHOLS--Cicely, 70, activist, editor, writer, entrepreneur. Her West Village, NYC home was a hub for a broad range of artists, musicians, writers, intellectuals, and activists at the heart of numerous movements. She was a leader in the fight for justice and inspired others to believe in themselves, each other, and their dreams. Memorial: 6:30pm, May 11, Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St. No flowers; please give to cancer research by Dr. Herbert Chen, information: gastrinoma@ aol.com, 608-263-2434. Vote Obama! URL: http://www.nytimes.com SUBJECT: ARTISTS & PERFORMERS (90%); DEATHS & OBITUARIES (87%); ENDOCRINE SYSTEM DISORDERS (87%); CANCER (70%); MEDICAL RESEARCH (70%); SINGERS & MUSICIANS (90%) PERSON: BARACK OBAMA (91%) GEOGRAPHIC: NEW YORK, NY, USA (91%) NEW YORK, USA (91%) UNITED STATES (91%) LOAD-DATE: May 6, 2008 LANGUAGE: ENGLISH DOCUMENT-TYPE: Paid Death Notice PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper Copyright 2008 The New York Times Company 795 of 1231 DOCUMENTS The New York Times
Late Edition - Final An Alternative Approach To Marketing Rock Bands BYLINE: By ROBERT LEVINE SECTION: Section C; Column 0; Business/Financial Desk; Pg. 8 LENGTH: 1258 words On Dec. 11, the Web site for the band Panic at the Disco turned completely white, with no explanation. Before long, curious fans noticed that the source code for the page contained a clue that hinted at the release of the band's new album, ''Pretty. Odd.'' Over the next few weeks, other puzzles appeared that led to samples of songs, a blog entry from the band, and finally -- through clues scattered around various Web sites -- the cover of the album and the names of the songs on it. ''We timed everything from late December through January to get people talking,'' said John Janick, who owns the band's label, Fueled by Ramen. In an era of instant downloads, the label made the band's fans work for everything they could. And after iTunes allowed customers to order the album in late January, Mr. Janick said, it sold 8,000 copies before it arrived in stores. The album has sold 235,280 copies since its release in late March, according to Nielsen SoundScan; the total is respectable for an alternative rock group that appeals to fans who tend to find music online rather than buy it. As CD sales continue to decline, Mr. Janick's instinct for grass-roots promotion has made Fueled by Ramen one of the few labels that consistently scores hits with alternative rock. Panic at the Disco's first album has sold 1.7 million copies; the most recent albums by two of the label's other bands, Paramore and Gym Class Heroes, have gone gold, and Fueled by Ramen bands like Cute Is What We Aim For are building an audience. The label has a deal with Atlantic Records, a Warner Music Group brand, that lets Atlantic promote, market and distribute Fueled by Ramen bands that are becoming popular. Even by itself, Fueled by Ramen is usually one of the most popular partner channels on YouTube, behind conglomerates like Universal Music and CBS. The label and its partners ''know how to do things on the cheap,'' said Bob McLynn, a partner at Crush Management, which represents Panic at the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Gym Class Heroes and several other Fueled by Ramen bands. ''The music business doesn't know how to do that.'' Fueled by Ramen has its acts promote one another as well as the company itself, as indie labels have done since the 1960s heyday of Motown and Stax. But Mr. Janick has brought such cross-promotion into the Internet era, where fans of one band are just a click away from information on another on the label's Web site. His bands often tour together, and many were discovered by Pete Wentz, of Fall Out Boy, and benefit from his implicit endorsement. ''Fall Out Boy endorsed Panic at the Disco and they got all this attention, and now you have Panic endorsing a couple of other bands,'' said Bob Becker, the president of Fearless Records, another independent label with links to the Warner Music Group. ''As long as you can keep that going, it works.'' Musically, the bands on Fueled by Ramen do not have much in common. But they share a certain aesthetic, with catchy tunes and lyrics about adolescent angst that are suitable for scrawling in a high school yearbook. ''There's a built-in audience of people who are genuine fans of the music on the label,'' said Alex Greenwald of the Fueled by Ramen band Phantom Planet, who says he thinks that will help his group win a larger following. Mr. Janick, 29, has been promoting music to high school students since he was one himself, bringing to school copies of albums from independent punk labels like Lookout and Epitaph to sell to his friends in Port Charlotte, Fla. Along with Less Than Jake's drummer, Vinnie Fiorello, whom he knew from attending local concerts, he started Fueled by Ramen. (Mr. Fiorello later sold his half of the label.) At the time, he was a freshman at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he majored in finance and business management and devoured biographies of the mogul David Geffen and the Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman. ''I didn't have much of a college life,'' he said. The label took off in 2003 -- after Mr. Janick had moved to Tampa to earn an M.B.A. at the University of South Florida -- when it signed Fall Out Boy. Part of the deal was that if the band proved popular, it would move to the major label Island Records, which it did. Just as important, Mr. Wentz set the pattern for Fueled by Ramen's marketing strategy: blog often, tour hard and keep expenses down. When Mr. Janick signs bands, he tells them how hard they will work, not how rich they will become. ''When I signed to Fueled by Ramen, Janick said, 'I think you're going to do well, but you have to know that our bands work hard and that's part of the reason they're successful,' '' said Alex DeLeon, the lead singer of the Cab. ''He said, 'We want kids to get to know you as a band, so post blogs and studio updates.' '' The Cab took this advice to heart: After the bandmates were in an accident in their tour van at the end of January, they posted video of their recovery. By the end of their winter tour, they noticed that some fans knew their songs -- a couple of months before their album came out. ''A lot of our bands are very open with their fans,'' said Adam Samiljan, Fueled by Ramen's senior director of new media. Mr. Janick promotes the label the same way. ''If I liked a band, I always wanted to know everything about where it came from,'' he said. Mr. Samiljan spends so much time online answering instant messages from fans of the label that he sometimes is recognized at concerts. ''I have 17 windows open right now,'' he said as he spoke about the label's Web site. Encouraging bands to promote one another also keeps expenses down, which helps both the groups and the label make money. Ryan Ross of Panic at the Disco recalled talking over the $500 it would cost to add cello and horns to the band's debut album, which was made for $18,000. And Mr. Wentz says that Mr. Janick does not like the expense of FedEx, so much so that he sometimes sends out royalty checks by mail. ''Instead of spending money on stupid stuff like that,'' Mr. Janick said, ''I'd rather spend money breaking a record.'' That approach has earned Mr. Janick admirers at the major labels, who have been cutting their budgets for the last few years. ''John thrived on not having any money,'' said Lyor Cohen, the chief executive of Warner Music Group, who brought Fueled by Ramen to Atlantic. ''He's a true independent-spirited entrepreneur.'' Fueled by Ramen's strategy does not always work. The last album from the Academy Is sold half of what its previous release did, and the new album from Cobra Starship, another of the label's bands, may not sell 100,000. For every success that seems to come out of nowhere, like Gym Class Heroes, the label has a struggling group that has yet to find an audience. And Fueled by Ramen's exclusive deal with Pete Wentz's Decaydance Records ended at the end of December, which means that Mr. Janick has lost his best talent scout. But Fueled by Ramen will keep the bands that Mr. Wentz had already signed, and this year it has follow-up albums due from Cute Is What We Aim For, Gym Class Heroes and the Academy Is. Mr. Janick is also thinking about the future of the music business and how Fueled by Ramen might fit into it. The label already has a merchandise company that sells band T-shirts at stores like Hot Topic, as well as on its Web site. ''The main thing for me is making sure kids can go to one place and get everything from the artist,'' Mr. Janick said. ''It's a branding thing.'' Download 5,58 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham:
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