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Those angry fans outside stadiums at the World Cup, and the empty seats inside, represent the nightmare of any business that sells online. And it all could have been avoided had Cup officials made sure that vendors provided backup servers for its ticketing website, through companies like IBM and EDS (which acquired the Web-hosting business of Loudcloud). "It's like running an electric utility, because you have to accommodate huge spikes in activity," says Marc Andreessen, a Loudcloud founder. When clients such as Foxsports.com and Fandango experience surges in online traffic, Loudcloud instantly provides backup servers...
Upon hearing the news that JENNIFER LOPEZ and CRIS JUDD, her husband of eight months, separated last week, you're probably asking yourself: What took so long? While it's possible for a wealthy, famous entertainer on the rebound from Puff Daddy to find love with her backup dancer, it hasn't happened yet. The two met on the set of one of her videos and wed in a ceremony that included metal detectors and 10,000 rosebuds. For advice on how to survive the breakup with an extremely famous singer-actress, Judd can perhaps solicit the advice of Carlos...
Like a chemist tweaking a formula, Arena constantly adjusts strategy and lineup to capitalize on the strengths of the players who are available against the next opponent. "His best quality is man management," says backup goalkeeper Tony Meola, who played for Arena at the University of Virginia in the late '80s. "You get chosen for a reason, whether you're a hard-nosed tackler or a playmaker. And those are the things you do." That's not the way many international coaches work it. Former U.S. and current China coach Bora Milutinovic, says Meola, makes players adjust to his system...
...Like a chemist tweaking a formula, Arena constantly adjusts strategy and lineup to capitalize on the strengths of the players who are available against the next opponent. "His best quality is man management," says backup goalkeeper Tony Meola, who played for Arena at the University of Virginia in the late '80s. "You get chosen for a reason, whether you're a hard-nosed tackler or a playmaker. And those are the things you do." That's not the way many international coaches work it. Former U.S. and current China coach Bora Milutinovic, says Meola, makes players adjust to his system...
Burnett, 54, has always been a music-industry anachronism. Raised in Fort Worth, Texas, he arrived on the pop scene in 1975 as the guitarist in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue, the backup musician who literally (at 6 ft. 7 in.) overshadowed a legend. In the '80s he became the lone Los Angeles songwriter to favor salvation over sin on a series of tough, moralistic solo albums. (Burnett and his wife, singer Sam Phillips, are devout Christians.) Burnett segued into producing and, while helming more than 40 albums for such artists as Elvis Costello and Counting Crows, became...