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Twenty-five years at the Met for Pavarotti and Domingo...
...auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...
Much ink has been spilled in the press about a supposed enmity between the two superstars. It isn't so. As Domingo puts it, "We are friends -- and rivals." The astonishing thing is that two such careers should blossom at the same time. This is the Golden Age of the tenors' art -- to be savored because both men are in their 50s and no successors close to their caliber are in sight...
...tradition comes mainly from four tribes: the Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and Santo Domingo. The Navajos work in heavy stone, with exquisite silver carving; the Zuni in patterned filigree. The Hopi are nonstop fabulists. Their story belts form linear odysseys -- carved panel by panel, link by silver link...
BROUGHT TO THE STATES AS A TEENAGER FROM HIS native Puerto Rico, Domingo Arroyo quickly learned that America is not always the promised land. With his mother Ramona and younger brother Ramon, he grew up in a grim housing project in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and struggled with studies in high school. He saw military service as the path to a better life and seemed well on his way to achieving it. Six months short of completing a four-year tour in the Marine Corps, Private First Class Arroyo, 21 -- who had won a combat-action ribbon during Desert Storm -- pulled...