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...Alonsos created a company steeped in the classical disciplines of French, Italian and especially Russian ballet. To fill its ranks, they started a tuition-free school with satellite academies in every province of the country. They scoured local schools and sports camps for young talent, regardless of the student's background. Graduates who didn't become performers became teachers. The result, as Alonso says, is "a Cuban school of ballet that is appreciated all over the world...
While athletes tallied up their Olympic medals in Torino, an hour's journey east in Milan another kind of Olympics played out last week: the style games. And, just like Olympians, Italian fashion designers divide into opposing teams. But instead of medals, they compete for the attention and the dollars of press and buyers from all over the world. The prize could be an "It" handbag with the potential to add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the bottom line, or a winning collection that elevates a designer or a brand to the top of fashion's scoreboard...
...against more stealthy competitors such as Jil Sander and Bottega Veneta in a duel of trends that pitted the ultrasexy look of the '80s against the sober minimalism of the '90s. Sex vs. sobriety is an age-old Milanese rivalry--one that goes back to the early days of Italian ready-to-wear when Giorgio Armani stood on one side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the artsier Prada label with the kind...
DIED. ARCHBISHOP PAUL MARCINKUS, 84, scrappy Chicago priest who rose to head the Vatican Bank and retired after being connected to one of the biggest financial scandals in Italian history; in Sun City, Ariz. Following the looting of $1.3 billion from another Italian bank, in which the Vatican held a major share, Marcinkus faced charges as an accessory to the crime. Though the Holy See would not permit his arrest--and he and the Vatican maintained his innocence--it paid $250 million as a "goodwill settlement" of the case...
...DIED. ARCHBISHOP PAUL MARCINKUS, 84, scrappy Chicago priest who rose to head of the Vatican Bank and retired after being connected to one of the biggest financial scandals in Italian history; in Sun City, Arizona. Following the looting of $1.3 billion from another Italian bank, in which the Vatican held a major share, Marcinkus faced charges as an accessory to the crime. Though the Holy See would not permit his arrest?and he and the Vatican maintained his innocence?it paid $250 million as a "goodwill settlement" of the case...