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Benjamin Wolf, GRAZ, AUSTRIA...
Arnold's contradictions--if that's what they are--are an outgrowth of his two formative experiences: an iron-heel upbringing in Austria followed by all the lubrications of sun and fun and wealth that we still call California. He was born in the Austrian village of Thal, near Graz, in 1947, in the struggling years right after World War II. His mother was a homemaker. His father was a policeman and an avid performer of military music, which may help explain why Schwarzenegger sometimes reminds you of a one-man oompah band...
...singing when she scraped into the Vienna Music Academy by a narrow vote of the entrance panel. "I was the last one they admitted," she says, with a mix of relish and wonderment at how things have turned out. She made her debut at the opera house in Graz in 1992 and was later hired by the State Opera in Vienna. Despite growing international fame and engagements at prestigious venues like La Scala, the Met and the Opéra Bastille in Paris, she has remained with the State Opera, where she is paid the same salary as other house...
This month Demel takes over as head of Magna Steyr (2001 sales: $1.5 billion), the Graz-based subsidiary of Canada's car-parts giant Magna International. His return to Austria--after 12 years in Germany and Brazil with Volkswagen--comes at a critical time for Magna Steyr, whose parent company hopes to spin it off next year. But Demel's move could be a watershed for the auto industry. As major carmakers sell more specialty cars, such as convertibles and four-wheel-drives, they are contracting out more of their manufacturing--even design and assembly--to suppliers like Magna Steyr...
...cost less than a similar break at home, the attraction is irresistible. So more and more Europeans are taking a couple of short breaks a year in addition to their annual vacation. And they are venturing into unknown territories. Eileen and Geoff Morgan of Hastings, England went to Graz this year. "We'd never been to Austria before," says Eileen. "It was lovely, just like the postcards." They now plan to visit St. Etienne in France, "and lots of other new places." "If you introduce a daily service all year round to these areas and you put a 315 fare...