I present some recent measurements of B meson decay rates to leptonic and
charmless hadronic final states, as well as of CP-violation charge asymmetries
and other features. I sketch the theoretical frameworks used to predict these,
and indicate the level of agreement of the estimates with experiment.Comment: Comments: 10 pages, 13 postscript figues, contributed to the
Proceedings of the XXV Physics in Collisio
