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...Forget the national Opera?today's up-and-coming performers would rather be heard on the subway. Paris' transit authority RATP is fast becoming a hotly contested sound stage. Since 1997, Antoine Naso, a 21-year RATP veteran and the authority's self-designated artistic director, has selected a range of entertainers to fill the Metro's tentacular halls with world music, rock and jazz standards or classical melodies...
...grim future. The company had lost $1 billion in the first quarter of 2003. "We had no cash, no flight attendants' deal, no access to the [financial] markets, no real understanding by our employees or Wall Street of where we needed to take the company," says Arpey, 45. Forget about the short-term cash-flow problem of a $20 billion company with just $1 billion in the bank and debt payments coming due, he says. "We had a long-term 'Where is the company going?' crisis...
...then I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch, who said the Athens effort was the worst organizational crisis in recent Olympic history. When Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took over the Games organization shortly after, she scaled back extravagant projects. Last February, the I.O.C.'s new president, Jacques Rogge, urged Greeks to forget the frills. Landscaping plans were pruned, a rail line was cancelled and the plastic roof over the Aquatic Center was scrapped. Even if everything goes well from here, those compromises will be felt. Visitors are being advised to wear comfortable shoes and be prepared to hoof it. Some insiders say these...
...with Runge's recent triumphs. In January, German trade magazine Horizont named him Media Manager of the Year. Ad pages in his titles - including German Vogue, GQ, and Vanity Fair - were up 11.5% in 2003, a tough year for media. All the more reason to forgive and forget...
...Provisional Authority confirms that a majority of Iraqis now want the U.S. to leave immediately. A growing number of U.S. officers in Iraq are also stepping forward with the blunt assessment that the war can't be won. That's not a conclusion that goes down well at home. Forget the lessons of history; this is America, exceptional, somehow immune. In the end, though every nation that has ever claimed stewardship over another's destiny (including the United States in Vietnam) has claimed the mantle of virtue, usually divinely ordained. The other side seldom saw it that...