Strategic Alliance Partners

Strategic Alliance Partners, a management group in the interactive CD industry, said Thursday that it has signed a three-year contract to represent Damian Music's line of enhanced compact discs. The company would not release financial terms. Strategic Alliance will help to put such titles as "Da Black Side Brown," as well as CD-ROM games "Doom" and "Hexen," into retail distribution. Enhanced CDs are CD-ROMs that can double as music CDs.

Strategic Alliance Partners, a management group in the interactive CD industry, said Thursday that it has signed a three-year contract to represent Damian Music's line of enhanced compact discs. The company would not release financial terms. Strategic Alliance will help to put such titles as "Da Black Side Brown," as well as CD-ROM games "Doom" and "Hexen," into retail distribution. Enhanced CDs are CD-ROMs that can double as music CDs.

Sitestar, Encino, said it has retained Travis Morgan Securities for investment banking services and advice on growth strategy, potential acquisitions and strategic alliance partners. Sitestar is a diversified holding company that acquires and invests in emerging Internet technologies and enterprises.

Origami and computers. It wouldn't seem they have much in common. Origami is the art of paper folding, which has a history stretching back to the first century, around the time paper was invented in China. Today, in its classic form, it is still a quiet, meditative endeavor that demands its adherents follow strict rules--no matter how complex the model a paper folder is making, he or she must start with a square piece of paper and make no cuts.

Whose destiny is it to lead the Pacific into the 21st Century? Pundits are asking that question with increasing frequency, wringing their hands over the decline of Pax Americana, fretting about Japan's dream of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and postulating about how the two great Pacific powers might balance their interests in a lasting partnership.