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...called song pimps, whose business it is to sell an artist's back catalog to movies and TV shows. A few years ago, Sony ATV, Buckley's publisher, put tracks from Grace on the compilation discs it uses to lure entertainment executives. Soon producers were forking over mid?five figures for Buckley's Hallelujah cover. Cohen murmured the original like a dirge, but except for a single overwrought breath before the music kicks in, Buckley treated the 7-min. song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness, beauty and pain, mostly just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Up the Ghost | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that received the biggest raves. To improve the acoustics, renovators removed rubble buried under the stalls during a hurried reconstruction after a 1943 Allied bombing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Grand Encore | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder It starts now and doesn't stop until New Year's - the end-of-the-year parade of holiday pies, cakes, cookies and other treats. In the U.S. , from late November to mid-January, the average American gains 2-3 kg. This is a problem for all Westerners - especially children, who are increasingly at risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Candy and other sweets marketed to kids are double health risks. Not only are they packed with calories that tend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats Are a Trap | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...charges in a case he'd long maintained was politically motivated. "Better late than never," he said Friday, after a three-judge panel lifted a judicial cloud that had followed Berlusconi since he entered politics in 1994. The court absolved the billionaire media mogul of bribing judges during a mid-1980s takeover battle. Still, the judges stopped short of a full acquittal, invoking the statute of limitations on a related bribery charge, implying some degree of guilt. The sunny skies lasted for less than 18 hours before a Palermo court brought some rain by convicting Berlusconi's longtime confidant Marcello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worldwatch | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...starts now and doesn't stop until New Year's?the end-of-the-year parade of holiday pies, cakes, cookies and other treats. In the U.S., from late November to mid-January, the average American gains 2-3 kg. This is a problem for many?especially children, who are increasingly at risk for obesity and Type 2 diabetes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Treats Are a Trap | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

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