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...kept sending me from doctor to doctor. I was there for about two hours, and I knew something was a little off when the guy came in and told me I needed to have surgery that night, and that if I didn't get it fixed I might go blind...
...proving difficult to find one new voice, let alone three. So recording companies like Universal, which issued the first Three Tenors' concert album, are plotting a different tenor-marketing strategy. Andrea Bocelli, a true crossover artist, releases a pop album for every classical disc he issues. The blind Italian's pop recording debut Romanza sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. His recent disc of Verdi arias sold 75,000 during Christmas week alone. Yet it is difficult to shake the suspicion that his blindness has, in marketing terms, contributed to his success. Universal predictably denies...
What we have here is a case of the foolish criticizing the blind. The Internet was never going to make the business cycle go away, and anyone who believed so deserved to lose all the money they had plowed into shares of hopeless dot-coms. And now that we are in an ever-so-slight downturn in the business cycle, those who say the Internet was all hype have obviously never used eBay or experienced one of the myriad forms of collaboration and communication that weren't possible even five years ago without the Internet...
...West achieved the dismantling of Africa's most powerful government--the apartheid regime in South Africa--by threatening to call in its loans. The West must exercise that option again and apply pressure, especially against governments that turn a blind eye to traditional cultural practices that abuse women. The West must help those who suffer. LLEWELLYN VAN WYK Cape Town...
...have your health, you've got nothing in life. And it's food and 8 hours of sleep that are going to keep you there. Anyway, you know how Dad likes his television shows. Last month he slipped back into his late-night 'Jerry' routine when they kicked 'Blind Date' off the air. But--thank God--he's found a new one: 'Dawson's Creek.' Jor, you don't carry a condom in your wallet...