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...Antonio Stradivari, one of the greatest craftsmen the world has known, would shudder if he were to read what follows. It concerns a cello he made three centuries ago, in 1701, that today some musicians consider the best in the world. It is named after one of its various owners, Adrien-François Servais, and for the past 20 years has been kept in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise Of Quality | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

While Green says the Gateway group never bribed anyone, it did find it helpful to include in the deal a Mexico City business partner with strong political contacts: Jose Antonio Garcia Contreras, an oil and auto magnate. The Gateway group met with dozens of candidates before choosing Garcia. "The real decision makers in Mexico are a relatively small group," Green says. "It is truly a club, in the same way the U.S. was during the 1900s when Morgan and Rockefeller ruled American business. They're wealthy men who went to the same schools, belong to the same clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Luring Mexican Shoppers | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...seem to think. For them, globalization is bad news--the triumph of giant corporations, the trashing of the earth, the end of self-government. But globalization's positive side is, intriguingly, a message of a hot new book. Since it was published last year, Empire, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, has been translated into four languages, with six more on the way. It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy--whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli--that's impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrong Side Of The Barricades | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

...Beijing had that fact working in their favor. They also had (IOC president Juan Antonio) Samaranch wanting to bring China into the fold - that?s the geo-political angle on why we should have China as the host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Gets the Games | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

...visited museums--including the Palazzo Grassi's stunning exhibition on the Etruscans--took long walks, dined out and window-shopped. Just before we flew home in first-class comfort, we attended a brilliant performance of the Four Seasons in Santa Maria della Pieta, the church where Venetian-born Antonio Vivaldi first performed this work in the early 18th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxury For Free | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

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