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Byline: JAMES McNAIR Burt Bacharach: with its cha-cha-cha of syllables, even his surname has music to it. He is Brian Wilson's favourite songwriter, and the celebrated iconoclast Frank Zappa credited [...]

Byline: JAMES McNAIR Tenuous though any link between Carlos Santana and James Stewart's character in It's a Wonderful Life might seem, there is one: both men have guardian angels. Santana's [...]

Byline: James McNair A posh hotel in central London. In a quiet ground floor room prettified by an expanse of stained glass, Bjrk's manager Scott is parked on a chaise [...]

Byline: James McNair As their No 1 album Absolution underlines, Muse do not lack ambition. Part Queen gone existential, part Rachmaninov rejigged for a cyberpunk audience, theirs is a wide-screen [...]

Byline: JAMES McNAIR In an upstairs room at The Engineer gastro-pub in north London, Robert Plant is using my Minidisc player while sipping vegetable soup from a cup. He's listening [...]

Byline: James McNair For years now, Metallica have used Ennio Morricone's 'The Ecstasy of Gold' as their intro music. Given that they've taken great care to ensure that the income [...]

Pop music has always liked its bards. Ask Bob Dylan. Ask Eminem, who was recently described as 'the bard of the destruction of the all- American family'. But the bard [...]

air Ivax Corp. shares rose 11.4 percent Tuesday after the Miami company said it has received federal permission to expand third-party sourcing of its Taxol generic drug for cancer patients. [...]

Forecasting a fourth-quarter loss three times larger than expected Tuesday, ANC Rental sacked its chief executive and replaced him with its battle-decorated chairman, former Alamo Rent A Car owner Michael [...]

MIAMI _ Barring last-minute government intervention or a miraculous recovery in prices, the volume of sugar falling into the possession of U.S. taxpayers likely will increase dramatically Monday when the [...]

MIAMI _ In 100 years of history, Firestone tires have outfitted Ford Model Ts, helped win wars and tasted victory 50 times at the Indianapolis 500. The company legacy is [...]

In 100 years of history, Firestone tires have outfitted Ford Model Ts, helped win wars and tasted victory 50 times at the Indianapolis 500. The company legacy is as glorious [...]

Owners of three types of Firestone tires believed to disintegrate at high speed on hot roads finally got the relief they wanted Wednesday _ a full recall _ but learned [...]

Owners of sport utility vehicles with potentially dangerous Firestone tires are rushing to tire dealers for new rubber, only to encounter a confounding array of policies about where to go, [...]

MIAMI _ Media giant CBS is buying a 30 percent stake in Big Entertainment of Boca Raton, Fla., in a deal that will give Big Entertainment nearly $105 million worth [...]

In a corporate adaptation of seduction and fidelity, United Rentals made an unsolicited offer Monday to buy Rental Service Corp. _ but only if Rental Service agrees to break up [...]

Already the world's largest auto retailer but eager to distinguish itself further from its rivals, Republic Industries on Friday hired one of Sears, Roebuck's top executives to cultivate AutoNation USA [...]

MIAMI _ In a land gushing with promises of unwrinkled skin, smaller noses and a head full of hair, nothing caught attention quite like the pill that does away with […]

Noven Pharmaceuticals of Miami has patented a skin patch capable of administering a full day's dose of medicine to people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Noven said Wednesday that the […]

Albert Dunlap, whose slash-and-burn downsizing tactics symbolized callous corporate attitudes toward workers, was named in a federal fraud lawsuit Tuesday that accused the former Sunbeam Corp. executive of costing shareholders […]

MIAMI _ Andrx Corp., the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., company that lost a federal lawsuit for cutting a $90 million backroom deal not to market its cheaper version of the high […]

In his career as a plumber, Abe Hertz of Delray Beach, Fla., battled with leaky pipes. In his retirement, he fought Medicare fraud. In death, he won his fight against […]

MIAMI _ While Marc Rich evaded U.S. tax-evasion charges by lying low in Switzerland, his oil products company in New York enjoyed unfettered sales to corporate America, particularly the nation's […]

MIAMI _ Facing the prospect of running two Arkansas prisons at a continuing loss, Wackenhut Corrections Corp. has elected to pull out of its contract on June 30. The nonrenewal […]

The case of the Cyprus Funds investment scam veered into respectable banking circles this week when a court-appointed trustee accused First Union National Bank of standing by while Cyprus defrauded […]

Eric Bartoli, accused of masterminding an investment scheme that owes about $35 million to people in the Midwest and Latin America, might have left the country, the court-appointed receiver in […]

Giving up efforts to reconcile a massive financial imbroglio inherited from former CEO Albert Dunlap, Sunbeam Corp. filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday and asked for the dismissal of all claims […]

It's common knowledge that you can make a living selling products on eBay, the Internet's most popular auction site. But how about an entire company with lenders, shareholders and 70 […]

MIAMI _ Just when it appeared the nation had become saturated with sport utility vehicles, five more automakers are making their debut in the SUV market. All will be on […]

MIAMI _ Floridians who take jobs as telephone psychics don't need licenses, but now recruits of the nation's biggest psychic hotline must sign a sworn statement _ that they really […]

As federal authorities investigate the safety of factory-equipped Firestone tires on Ford Explorers and one of the nation's largest retailers pulled them from its shelves, the maker of the tires […]

FPL Group, which provides electricity to one of every two people in Florida, has made a deal to become the biggest powerhouse in the nation. The parent company of Florida […]

The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it has filed suit against Rexall Sundown, accusing the Boca Raton, Fla., company of bloating claims that its Cellasene pills reduce or eliminate cellulite. […]

MIAMI _ Union members from a closed Sunbeam Corp. coffee-maker plant in Ohio aired their displeasure at the company's annual meeting Tuesday and called the plant shutdown a throwback to […]

MIAMI _ Record high output, perilously low prices and a mountain of inventory are pushing Florida's sugar producers toward default on their federal crop loans for the first time since […]

The parent company of Florida Power & Light said Thursday it has pulled the plug on its efforts to sell electricity and related services to commercial customers in the Northeast. […]

AutoNation said Monday it will jettison its faltering $3.6 billion-a-year auto rental unit, a move that will make the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., company solely an auto retailer, but which has […]

AutoNation is buying four dealerships in Fort Worth, Texas, from the Ford Dealer Network for an undisclosed sum of cash, a transaction triggered by a new Texas law barring auto […]

MIAMI _ State police arrested five Miami men Friday on charges they falsified loan applications to dupe a Miami mortgage lender into making more than $1.5 million in loans to […]

MIAMI _ Breaking the bacon-and-eggs or pancake routine in the morning can be as easy as spreading a little kumquat marmalade on your toast or bagel. And if kumquat doesn't […]

MIAMI _ Lining up with a reform movement backed by its chief executive, Sunbeam Corp. of Fort Lauderdale named to its board Thursday a Stetson University professor who has long […]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Motorola announced a wireless programmable sign Wednesday that will flash news, stock prices and sports scores for people in waiting rooms, restaurants and stores. Dubbed the […]

BOCA RATON, Fla. _ Keep an eye on John Schwarz, the new chief at IBM Corp.'s software lab here. If he's still on the job in, say, three years, it […]

If this story sounds familiar, it should be. A small band of people huddle in hush-hush circumstances in a small lab in Boca Raton, Fla. Their secret mission? To introduce […]

IBM Corp. will make its big move to dent Microsoft's supremacy of the personal computer market Tuesday when it unveils a juiced-up version of its OS/2 operating system. The code-named […]

Another big day at the office. You put on a nice suit. Grab the briefcase and turn on the cellular phone. Oh, and don't forget the gun. Responding to the […]