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...bears close attention. For one thing, its very governability is at stake. Before Christmas, riots provoked by cuts in social spending and limits on bank withdrawals brought down the government of President Fernando de la Rua and left 28 dead. Argentina then engaged in the politics of a comic opera, with three men holding the title of head of state in less than two weeks, before Duhalde was sworn...
...developed the disease several years earlier than is normal for a sheep. Roslin scientist Ian Wilmut called for systematic reviews of the health of cloned animals. Profile: But She's So Young AUSTRALIA Black Christmas for Sydneysiders For more than 14 days smoke drifted over Sydney's famous Opera House while hot winds fanned an encircling band of flame ever closer to the city. As 20,000 firefighters tackled more than 100 bush fires, police arrested 23 people, 15 of them between the ages of nine and 16, suspected of deliberately starting at least half the blazes. Though residents used...
...first songwriters to win a Pulitzer Prize for a musical ("Of Thee I Sing"). Berlin did some work for Broadway in this period, but mainly he ground out one-off songs. You could say that he made nothing but hits and money. He talked grandly about writing a "folk opera" (Gershwin finally did); Puccini supposedly wanted to collaborate with him on an opera. But Berlin was compelled to keep writing in a form that could guarantee hit status for nearly every song. "His narrow field of activity," Bergreen writes, "resulted from both his own musical limitations and his enslavement...
...GERGIEV/KIROV ORCHESTRA The Rite of Spring (Philips) Igor Stravinsky's clamorous ballet score has now received a quintessentially Russian recording: violent, brazen, full of all the blunt power of passionate peasant ritual. Gergiev has been making a big impression as principal guest conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and this CD leaves no doubt...
...Gergiev/Kirov Orchestra The Rite of Spring (Philips) Igor Stravinsky's clamorous ballet score has now received a quintessentially Russian recording: violent, brazen, full of all the blunt power of passionate peasant ritual. Gergiev has been making a big impression as principal guest conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and this CD leaves no doubt...