The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
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  • What is globalization?
  • utterly vacuous...the case for globalization is made far better elsewhere
  • Excellent Globalization Primer
  • Mixed reviews
  • Well written but Friedman is completely ignorant of what Adam Smith's free trade position meant
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas L. Friedman
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Release Date: 2000-05-02

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One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East squabble between Palestinians and Israelis. And it hit him: Half the world was lusting after those Lexuses, or at least the brilliant technology that made them possible, and the other half was fighting over who owned which olive tree.

Friedman, the well-traveled New York Times foreign-affairs columnist, peppers The Lexus and the Olive Tree with stories that illustrate his central theme: that globalization--the Lexus--is the central organizing principle of the post-cold war world, even though many individuals and nations resist by holding onto what has traditionally mattered to them--the olive tree.

Problem is, few of us understand what exactly globalization means. As Friedman sees it, the concept, at first glance, is all about American hegemony, about Disneyfication of all corners of the earth. But the reality, thank goodness, is far more complex than that, involving international relations, global markets, and the rise of the power of individuals (Bill Gates, Osama Bin Laden) relative to the power of nations.

No one knows how all this will shake out, but The Lexus and the Olive Tree is as good an overview of this sometimes brave, sometimes fearful new world as you'll find. --Lou Schuler

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From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that, more than anything else, is shaping world affairs today.

As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life: Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in Indonesia, Islamic students in Teheran, and the financial wizards on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley.

Now Friedman has drawn on his years on the road to produce an engrossing and original look at globalization. Globalization, he argues, is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced the Cold War system; the new, well-greased, interconnected system: Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, and information across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market and, to some degreee, a global village. Simply put, one can't possibly understand the morning news or one's own investments without some grasp of the system. Just one example: During the Cold War, we reached for the hot line between the White House and the Kremlin--a symbol that we were all divided but at least the two superpowers were in charge. In the era of globalization, we reach for the Internet--a symbol that we are all connected but nobody is totally in charge.

With vivid stories and a set of original terms and concepts, Friedman offers readers remarkable access to his unique understanding of this new world order, and shows us how to see this new system. He dramatizes the conflict of "the Lexus and the olive tree"--the tension between the globalization system and ancient forces of culture, geography, tradition, and community. He also details the powerful backlash that globalization produces among those who feel brutalized by it, and he spells out what we all need to do to keep the system in balance. Finding the proper balance between the Lexus and the olive tree is the great drama of he globalization era, and the ultimate theme of Friedman's challenging, provocative book--essential reading for all who care about how the world really works.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars What is globalization?.......2007-09-16

Just about everyone has a definition of globalization and a view as to whether it is 'good' or 'bad'. For most of us, relative 'goodness' or 'badness' will depend on how we perceive globalization to impact on us individually or on our local communities.

The case for globalization is not made in this book. The relative measurement of global benefits and disadvantages is not something readily accessible to most of us: what benefits me is likely to disadvantage you.

What makes this book worth reading, in my view, is that by using concrete examples (ownership of the olive tree, or desire for the Lexus)readers may come to see debates about globalization as not just being the realm of economists and governments. Whether we like it or not, globalization is part of the current world landscape. We need to consider what this means at an individual level.

This book does not provide answers. What it does provide is a starting point for identifying and thinking about some of the issues.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

1 out of 5 stars utterly vacuous...the case for globalization is made far better elsewhere.......2007-08-21

I read this book years ago. While I realized then that the book was poor, only now after reading several other books on the same topic do I realize just how much. Friedman's only discernible talent seems to be filling pages with fact-like tripe and passing it off as, well, something worthy of attention. In the process of course he's swindling people who are actually interested enough in globalization to buy a book. Thomas Friedman isn't an economist, from what I can tell he's not an expert on much of anything, and his long-sustained role as some sort of eminently knowledgeable commentator on these topics bothers me to no end. People like this slow down the progress of all human kind.

Since I'm what you could characterize for lack of a better term as "pro-globalization", this book makes me doubly angry, as it manages to damage the cause it purportedly supports. He can't even preach to the choir properly, since the choir thinks he's an idiot.

Critics of globalization are laughed off in 20 pages, and even if he spent more time he doesnt have the expertise to make a remotely convincing case. This is done far better elsewhere, I'd recommend Martin Wolf's 'Why Globalization Works.' Its a much tougher read for an intro to globalization, but thats because, uh, Wolf actually knows what he's talking about. So if you're "anti-globalization" and want a book to challenge your perceptions, or are just someone generally interested in the topic, read that. But if you feel like having a laugh at a self-absorbed, self-appointed 'expert' and cheerleader for processes he cant possibly understand, then by all means read Friedman.

And just to reiterate for everyone who's read this already, if you think you learned something from this book about globalization, either for or against, you probably didn't.

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Globalization Primer.......2007-07-25

Even though this book is seven years old, I still found it to be a highly adept examination of globalization and a good primer for anyone who, like myself, has not read every tome on the growing global economy. Friedman is obviously an accomplished journalist and author, and brings these talents to bear on much of the book. I found myself pausing quite often to reflect on some of the theories he presented, like Golden Straightjacket, DOScapital, or - my favorite - the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention.

This last concept serves as a perfect example for the intellectual tone of the book, and some of the debatable concepts. While he was on one of his many globetrotting expeditions, Friedman formed this theory from the observation that no country capable of a sustaining a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war with another of similar standing. The theory is that by the time the middle class of a country is large enough to support a McDonald's franchise, there is too much for it to loose in terms of global trade capital, to risk a protracted war with another McDeveloped state. Of course, this theory has its adversaries, who often point to the US intervention into Panama or NATO's bombing of Serbia, but that healthy intellectual debate is exactly what makes reading this book so fun and thought provoking.

I only failed to give Mr. Friedman's book 5 stars, because in the end, I thought he could have made his point more succinctly. For, if we truly live in a global world, where we compete against everyone else on the planet, who has time to read a book of over 500 pages?

1 out of 5 stars Mixed reviews.......2007-07-23

I initially found this book pretty interesting. I watched Thomas Friedman's interview on Charlie Rose and found him to be an interesting speaker on timely issues related to globalization.

When I got the book and started reading it, I got pretty tired of reading the made-up terms he used, eg. electronic herd etc..

I found the book to be biased towards the benefits of globalization and dismissing the disadvantages.

What I did like about the book was some of the personal anecdotes he relates to the readers, ultimately giving you the feel that you're hearing the story from the man on the ground.

I found doomsdayer520's review of this book to be particularly helpful.

4 out of 5 stars Well written but Friedman is completely ignorant of what Adam Smith's free trade position meant.......2007-07-03

T Friedman writes another interesting book that ultimately collapses intellectually because he never took the time to read what it was that Adam Smith concluded about free trade.The words " free Trade " appear on many pages of this book;unfortunately,Friedman doesn't understand what they mean in terms of Smith's system of thought.He appears to have substituted instead an " anything goes " libertarianism that is anathema to Smith.Free trade is merely the extension of the standard Smithian analysis about the process of wealth creation that starts with the specialization of labor(comparative advantage),division of labor,extension of the market,economic growth,and international trade(international comparative advantage).Smith pointed out that this process,at any level, has severe undepletable externality and spillover costs associated with it.He is very blunt:" Only government action can mitigate or reduce these costs".Any reader can simply turn to pp.734-735 of the Modern(Cannan)Library edition for confirmation.Friedman definitely needs to correct the present edition in the future
The Lexus And The Olive Tree - Understanding Globalization, Newly Updated and Expanded Edition
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    Thomas L. Friedman
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    The Way the World Works.(Review): An article from: Policy Review
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      Holman W., Jr Jenkins.
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                  From the acclaimed author of This Old Boat comes a unique collection of do-it-yourself projects that any boat owner can complete over the course of a single weekend--with simple tools and minimal skills. Profusely illustrated in an easy-to-follow step-by-step format, this handy guide features dozens of boat-improvement projects, including:

                  Customer Reviews:

                  4 out of 5 stars Great Book!.......2007-09-03

                  This is a great book to read during the winter, when you haven't been sailing for months. It's full of ideas you'll never actually employ, but it's definitely worth checking out from the library. The companionway speakers have been on my project list for a long time. I'm never going to do it, but it's a great idea and I'd love to have them. Even the guy at West Marine thought it was a good idea.

                  3 out of 5 stars Lots of ideas that you probably don't need.......2007-03-18

                  I found this book nice and easy to read - but I have found that I have not really introduced any of these improvements in my boat. So I guess the main purpose of a book like this, is that you start thinking for yourself and maybe be inspired to think of even better improvements that suits your boat and your needs.

                  5 out of 5 stars Great ideas - good investment.......2006-06-29

                  This is a book for sailboats. My T26 was built in '77, so this book has a lot to offer. The ideas are quite varied, so I'll never use all or even a small portion of them. But just with one idea that I never thought of, the book has paid for itself. Having an older boat that I'm willing to make modifications to, many of the improvements listed are answers to those questions I have about "What can I do to make ____ better?" Like making better use of the space available for what I need, instead of how it was intended. The ideas are lightweight, easy to implement and inexpensive. You have to be comfortable using common tools. This is a DIY guide, not a chandlery shopper's guide.

                  5 out of 5 stars Another fine Casey "How-To...".......2003-03-17

                  Don Casey has firmly established himself as an effective communicator of all things nautical...particularly in the do-it-yourself category. This is an enjoyable little volume which contains a number of projects designed to improve the safety and liveability of the sailboat. The excellent and clear illustrations make the written descriptions easy to follow. The International Marine Sailboat Library has a number of these useful how-to books (several by Casey) which belong on nearly any sailor's bookshelf.

                  2 out of 5 stars 100 Fast & Easy Boat Improvements.......2000-06-05

                  This book is mostly geared toward sailboats and large cruisers. Of very little value to power boaters. At best I'd give it a fair.
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                      Japanese in Mangaland: Basic Japanese Course Using Manga
                      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                      • Finally a course that focuses on the written word
                      • Good idea, poor execution
                      • The best Japanese book I have bought!!!
                      • I Bought this for my Teeneged Student of Japanese
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                      remember vocabulary associated with concrete situations. Besides that, learning with manga is more fun than simply reading page after page of dry prose. The 30 lessons that make up the book include drills, and a small glossary of 160 basic "kanji" is appended as an added bonus.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      5 out of 5 stars Finally a course that focuses on the written word.......2007-10-03

                      This series is the best I've found after floundering off and on for years. I am a visual learner and the best way to learn for me is to read, but reading Japanese has always been presented as something difficult and fearful. Traditional courses put it off as long as possible and you are always taught "polite" language first. However, most of us who want to learn the language are used to hearing the extremely colloquial language found in our favorite anime and/or reading manga. This course does just the opposite. Polite language is not ignored, but colloquialisms that would only be taught to advanced students elsewhere are brought up right from the first.

                      More importantly, this course hits reading head on from the first page. While it's true that they hang on to romaji throughout the first book, it is eliminated in the two that follow. As the author warns in the preface to Vol. 2, it's time to strap on a headband and get to work after you've made it through the introductory first volume.

                      I'm now nearing the end of the second volume and ready to tackle the third in preparation for the JLPT in December. The author claims that you should be ready for the level 3 after Vol. 3, and I intend to put that to the test...literally.

                      Frankly, I would like to see this series repackaged for college use with more workbooks like that accompanying the first volume (and the answers only found in the teacher's edition!), it's that good and most college course books that I've seen are that BAD. (Don't even get me started on the dense, dry style and confusing romaji in "Japanese: The Spoken Language". It's horrible, and is yet one of the more commonly used series. *sigh*)

                      The format changes slightly after the first volume, with in depth work with those evil particles and verb conjugations. But to get to the heavy hitting work, you first must make it through the first volume.

                      My suggestion is to buy all 3 and the workbook for volume one and give yourself the goal of passing the level 3 JLPT (there are 4 levels with 4 being the easiest and 1 the hardest). With a definite goal and a once a year testing schedule with a definite date that YOU have no control over, it's much easier to buckle down and study.

                      It's working well for me, anyway. I've already noticed myself automatically reading the signs in pictures I took on vacation in Japan a few years ago..and not just the ones in English or kana!

                      3 out of 5 stars Good idea, poor execution.......2007-09-13

                      The idea of learning japanese by reading manga is really great. Manga is, after all, one of the reasons that make many people want to learn the language in the first place. So this book looks promising, but it's actually just somewhat less boring than traditional textbooks.

                      The book's content originated from a column about the japanese language that was featured in a spanish magazine about manga. It's reasonable to suppose that its aims were quite unambitious at first: help manga fans learn a few words and set expressions that were used very often in the comics. The format of the lessons were: "here are some words and expressions, memorize them" along with very superficial explanations and examples from a few manga panels. This format is adequate for a magazine, with its space restrictions, but really not optimal for a book.

                      Unfortunately, the lessons were not improved when collected to make a book. One can say they were actually worsened, by replacing real manga panels with some generic manga drawn especially for the book. It is quite boring to try to memorize a lot of vocabulary in each lesson, the explanations rarely do more than scratch the surface, and the examples and exercises are very few and unenlightening. In most examples, there are a lot of words and parts of the sentence you don't understand, and the book doesn't explain anything beyond what's the topic of the current lesson. I'd be very surprised if I'd manage to really learn some japanese from this book, aside from some words and set expressions, after a lot of boring memorization work.

                      Now, it's not all bad. I've been learning japanese for more than a year now, and in this time I've used this book mostly as a reference. The short lessons make it easy to locate some specific word or expression, and the examples help to put them in context. I'd recommend it mostly as a supplement, not as a main book in any way. You'll finish the first volume, with 30 lessons in all, knowing very little japanese, and will have to resort to other books, like the other volumes of the same collection, with the same problems. If you want a "learn japanese with manga" book really well-done, try Japanese The Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide To Grammar And Structure, it's a complete, organized japanese course illustrated with real manga, well explained and with all examples completely analyzed. I can't praise it enough.

                      If you have some money to spare, buy this book for additional content, like the lesson on curses and swearing, but don't expect too much from it. It may be good for getting some words memorized, but to get a real sense of the japanese language you'll have to go somewhere else. Again, Japanese The Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide To Grammar And Structure is a good suggestion.

                      5 out of 5 stars The best Japanese book I have bought!!!.......2007-08-15

                      The "Japanese in Mangaland: Basic Japanese Course Using Manga" was really good and reliable. I have bought programs and a lot of Japanese self-study books and work books, and this one was the best one I have bought. It explains everything in a well-toned manner and everything is understandable.

                      There are explanations to everything and the author helps the reader/student learn how to write and read Kanji and the other forms of writing, Katakana and Hiragana.

                      The manga examples proved to be a really good method to help learn because instead of just reading countless paragraphs of explanations, you get to look and see how the Japanese authors of manga use the writing and their language in graphic novels in Japan.

                      I think after this book, the next ones should also be bought. This book is money well spent and I am sure you'll enjoy studying the Japanese language and writing just as I have. So buy this book and learn Japanese today!

                      5 out of 5 stars I Bought this for my Teeneged Student of Japanese.......2007-08-03

                      While I can't improve on what Courtland said, I would like to say that I bought this for one of my daughters, a straight-A student of Japanese. At first she didn't like it but she was bored and started to read it and decided that she liked it. This is useful Japanese. It's repetitive. It's how it is spoken. She saw her Japanese teacher the other day while grocery shopping and he immediately started speaking to her and she spoke back, speaking better than she had in his class and he was extremely pleased as she'd not lost anything over the summer.

                      Magna reminds me of comic books in elementary school-- the teachers didn't think they were useful reading material but for kids who weren't into reading and liked the short stories with lots of action, they were good because at least they were reading and getting something out of them. This is really the way to go for learning ebcause you put the language into use immediately.

                      5 out of 5 stars Great Way To Learn More Japanese.......2007-05-12

                      If you have already mastered Hiragana and have some basic grasp of Japanese, then this book can serve as a very enlightening complement to a more traditional course in Japanese. A more traditional course in Japanese will introduce you to the essential aspects of formal and polite language; this book will introduce you to what are arguably the equally essential aspects of more informal and popular language and culture. The selected Manga illustrations in the book are fun and often humorous, thus encouraging the assiduous language learner!

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                      ASIN: 0689860226

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                      They're brilliant, they're beautiful,...and they work for Charlie.


                      Dylan: The wild child with a tough exterior but fierce loyalties.


                      Natalie: The sunny, shy girl next door who's also a demon behind the wheel.


                      Alex: The ultimate class act, sophisticated -- and unstoppable with a laptop.


                      The case: Uncover the identity of a rogue FBI agent, and ensure the security of HALO: the Hidden Alias List Operation. Aka the witness protection program. HALO's list of witnesses has been encrypted into a pair of titanium rings -- and one of the rings has gone missing. Despite an agency fail-safe initiative, federal witnesses are at risk of being uncovered by any skilled hacker. But not if the Angels can help it. From Hollywood premieres to race-car pursuits -- with a few blasts from Dylan's past -- it's head-to-toe glamour and nonstop action for the independent women who always win!

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                      4 out of 5 stars There actually was a good story at one time!.......2005-03-11

                      Reading the novel helped explain what the writers in the movie really wanted to happen, but got lost by the director during the filming. It helped fill in a lot of blanks and made situations clearer on different characters, including the background of the Thin Man. The book is still on the bubble gum side, but worth a read, especially if you felt lost or disappointed by the movie. There actually was a good story at one time! Too bad it didn't make it to the screen. Unfortunately, the second movie probably killed the franchise, but I would still love to know the outcome of Dylan's possible new love interest in a third movie. Then again, maybe it would be better if they just wrote a third book instead and left it at that!
                      Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Jr. Novelization
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                        Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Jr. Novelization
                        Emma Harrison
                        Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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                        ASIN: 0613664507
                        Girls' life top 10 movies.(Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle; Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blue; Daddy Day Care; Finding Nemo; Rugrats Go Wild; Pirates ... (movie review): An article from: Girls' Life
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                          Girls' life top 10 movies.(Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle; Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blue; Daddy Day Care; Finding Nemo; Rugrats Go Wild; Pirates ... (movie review): An article from: Girls' Life
                          Kara Wilde
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                          ASIN: B0008DIVDW
                          Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                          This digital document is an article from Girls' Life, published by Monarch Avalon, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 609 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                          Title: Girls' life top 10 movies.(Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle; Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blue; Daddy Day Care; Finding Nemo; Rugrats Go Wild; Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl; Sinbad: Legends of the Sea; Whale Rider; Alex and Emma; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life)(Movie Review) (movie review)
                          Author: Kara Wilde
                          Publication: Girls' Life (Magazine/Journal)
                          Date: June 1, 2003
                          Publisher: Monarch Avalon, Inc.
                          Volume: 9 Issue: 6 Page: 44(1)

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                          Pantalla grande. (En Proyeccion).(peliculas )(Resena de pelicula): An article from: Semana
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                            Pantalla grande. (En Proyeccion).(peliculas )(Resena de pelicula): An article from: Semana

                            Manufacturer: Spanish Publications, Inc.
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                            ASIN: B0008DU7QG
                            Release Date: 2005-07-31

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                            This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on July 6, 2003. The length of the article is 1394 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                            Title: Pantalla grande. (En Proyeccion).(peliculas )(Resena de pelicula)
                            Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
                            Date: July 6, 2003
                            Publisher: Spanish Publications, Inc.
                            Volume: 9 Issue: 540 Page: 33(1)

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                              Manufacturer: Spanish Publications, Inc.
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                              ASIN: B0008DUPQI
                              Release Date: 2006-05-24

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                              This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on July 13, 2003. The length of the article is 1734 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                              Title: Pantalla grande. (En Proyeccion).(Resena de pelicula)
                              Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
                              Date: July 13, 2003
                              Publisher: Thomson Gale
                              Volume: 9 Issue: 541 Page: 31(1)

                              Article Type: Resena de pelicula

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                              Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle (Ost)
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                                Charlie's Angels:Full Throttle (Ost)
                                Various Artists-Pink Cdcolm 90132
                                Manufacturer: CBS/EPIC/WTG RECORDS
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