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...arts is seven times higher than in the U.K., the figure stands at about 4%. But even in those nations where the arts and business worlds have been viewed as mutually exclusive, private funding is increasingly important. In France, it is one of the pillars of Culture Minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon's new policy for the arts...
...first instinct may have been right - with foreign investment in the U.S. down 85% since 2000, the currently wimpy dollar may yet be punching above its weight. Broken Records EUROBLUES It's not because I'm in competition with Thierry Breton that I announce these results," said Vivendi CEO Jean-René Fourtou), but the CEOs were locked in a race to the bottom, kicked off on Wednesday when Breton's France Telecom announced a €20.7 billion loss - the biggest in French corporate history. But Vivendi reclaimed the title the next day with its own €23.3 billion loss...
...invitation to compete in the Bank of America Colonial tournament in May, which will make her the first woman in more than 50 years to play in a PGA event. Sorenstam says she is "curious to see if [she] can compete." But experts don't foresee a Billie Jean King--style man-beating--Sorenstam will be driving from the men's tees, which are about 10% longer than the women's. A Top 10 finish is probably out of reach. But now that the athletic gender barrier is down, is it finally time for Dennis Rodman...
...struggle to find money for his treatment. I have to take care of my son by myself, alone. Now they have gone and released the people who did this to us. If they do not help me look after him, then at least let them give me justice." Jean Pierre Bucyana was 17 when he took up a machete. After seven years in prison he looks frail and older than his years - and now he's alone. "I helped others kill. But subsequently, my whole family was killed by people seeking revenge," he says in a matter-of-fact...
...story the flavor and fire of an era when even the newspapers had names like the Agitator and the Castigator. And the Rankins turn out to be a redoubtable clan. After a gang of armed men demanded to search her house for a runaway slave, the minister's wife Jean did not bat an eyelash. "If you do not hereafter keep away you will feel the force of powder and lead upon you," she told them. "If no one else would shoot you I would do it myself." Three cheers for muscular Christianity. --By Richard Lacayo