Word: bbc
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...want to be an overnight sensation in classical music these days, you'd best look the part. You can be moodily romantic like long-haired Argentinian guitarist Dominic Miller (signed up by BBC Worldwide to launch their Inversion label), sulkily sexy like the all-girl string quartet Bond (2 million albums sold and counting). Skittishly sexy is also fine, a la Myleene Klass, the English Popstars siren turned classical pianist (also signed by Universal, reportedly for €1.4 million-plus). Smoldering sulkiness is equally bankable, as bad-boy Croatian pianist Maksim is finding out (EMI has signed him for five...
...recognized on the streets. Now that success is spreading to the West. He's onto his second record contract, having just been snapped up by Deutsche Grammophon, which recently released his recordings of Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn concertos. In July he was given the honor of opening the BBC Proms in London with a nationally televised concert. A few days later, he played on Good Morning America, and as a result, his Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn album made No. 1 on Amazon.com's "Movers and Shakers" list for the biggest leap in sales. Hearing Lang Lang on disc is gratifying...
...campbell the week's big news? Everyone thought so - until another bomb dropped. A senior diplomat named David Broucher testified about a peculiar conversation he'd had with Kelly in Geneva in February, before Kelly had talked to the BBC. Kelly had told Broucher that if Britain invaded Iraq, he would "probably be found dead in the woods." Kelly was dismayed because he'd told Iraqi scientists nothing would happen if they cooperated with the U.N., and Broucher felt he was he agonizing that he had betrayed his contacts. Even with the precise meaning of Kelly's remark uncertain...
...government was under huge pressure to persuade a lukewarm public about the need for war, and the dossier was continually redrafted. And Blair, it turns out, was also anxious to learn what Kelly's views were about WMD and what Kelly might say to the M.P.s. is the BBC vindicated? Nope. Despite the Beeb's public defense of Gilligan's story, an internal e-mail from Gilligan's boss talked about his strong but "flawed" reporting. And a bbc colleague who also interviewed Kelly complained her bosses had tried to dragoon her into corroborating Gilligan's story, which she felt...
...from both the fires and heat exhaustion - reached at least 36. In Portugal, which battled devastating forest fires, the government appealed to the E.U. for 31 billion in aid. Spinning Around U.K. David Kelly, the scientist who apparently killed himself after being named as the main source for a BBC report that questioned the government's case for war against Iraq...