I told them to quit arguing and sign the contract. I know they are trying to be careful, but sometimes new owners take that a little too far.

We would step in if we felt like it was being botched. Our owners control their own destiny. Maybe we give our owners too much free reign. We want them to learn their own responsibility. This happens with new owners.

Even in 1924 they were trying to keep it open all the time and never succeeded.

Customers think the price is really good where it is. We're trying to compete with piracy — we're trying to pull people away from piracy and say, 'You can buy these songs legally for a fair price.' But if the price goes up a lot, they'll go back to piracy. Then, everybody loses.

It's not a secret we've been trying to shoehorn a G5 [processor] into a notebook, and have been unable to do so because of its power consumption.

Merkel is aware that if she goes too far in trying to establish a special relationship with Bush there might be consequences for the coalition. And her political fate is very much linked to the success of this coalition.