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Austria's weekly newsmagazine Profil recently ran an illustration on its cover of an agonized-looking Mozart squashed beneath his father's leather britches and spewing out gold coins. The message in the headline: Mozart has been "brutally marketed for 200 years." And this year, during the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth, the accompanying article concluded, "the threat of total marketing looms." Nowhere is that commercial exploitation more evident than in Salzburg, the quaint Austrian city where Mozart was born, which hopes to cash in on the anniversary with an incongruous mix of kitsch and high culture. "Salzburg...
...National Festival this summer and from there a spot on the squad that conducted a pre-Olympic tour this fall. Then, on Dec. 27 at the Mall of America in hockey-mad Minnesota, Cahow received final confirmation that she would don the red, white, and blue and go for gold in Turin.And all this happening to a young woman just 20 years of age. When Cahow returns to campus next fall, she’ll join my graduating class—the class of 2008. But first, she will take a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy. She will...
...Kwan, a nine-time U.S. champion and five-time world gold medalist, injured her groin, and has been unable to practice jumps or spins since mid-December. She had just recovered from a hip injury that kept her from competing at any international events in a season in which she is trying to make her third Olympic team...
...Missing the nationals doesn't necessarily mean Kwan won't skate in Torino in pursuit of Olympic gold, the only medal to have eluded her. She is petitioning the USFSA for one of three spots on the ladies' team, and her fate will be decided on January 14, immediately after the ladies' event at nationals. Kwan said her doctor cleared her to begin jumping on January 13, barely enough time to prove she will be ready to compete in Torino. "I believe I will be 100% for the Olympics, and I feel that I have a shot...
...over 10 years? It's a pittance, given that the average cost of bringing a new drug to market is estimated to be $800 million, according to a 2001 study by the Tufts University Center for the Study of Drug Development. "There has to be a big bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow to get the big companies," Greenberger says...