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Lascivious, preposterous, acutely human: that's Shakespeare's fat knight, set to music by Verdi. Now Bryn Terfel, Wales' contribution to the gaiety of nations, has put the best of all possible comic operas on record, igniting every line with his sly wit and redwood-sized bass-baritone voice. Don't throw away your old Toscanini album--Claudio Abbado's conducting is sometimes a bit fussy--but Terfel is as fine a Falstaff as has ever lived, and Thomas Hampson is splendid as Ford, the hypersuspicious husband whom Sir John longs to cuckold. If current events are weighing you down...
...Sept. 25, HP, which has a partnership with cabinetmaker Hitachi, completed its $310 million purchase of StorageApps, a company based in Bridgewater, N.J., that competes with Veritas in making tools that allow companies to pool their storage devices and access unused space. Last month EMC bought Luminate Software of Redwood City, Calif.--its seventh software acquisition in nearly two years...
...around. Besides the marked Williams sisters, there's No. 1-ranked Martina Hingis, who has morphed from the adorable Swiss miss into the tour's trash-talking queen; Jennifer Capriati, the seemingly washed-up teen prodigy turned fitness monster and this year's dominant player; Lindsay Davenport, a California redwood, who squeezed her high school prom in around the tour and now fires shots at the other players from the safety of her elder-stateswomanship; Monica Seles, the once champion, who was knifed in the back by a lunatic eight years ago and is now playing with a desperate intensity...
Then Bollinger decided to leap into the information age. It paid $3 million to Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., for a suite of e-business software that promised to impose order on almost all its operations, including inventory, purchasing, project accounting and payroll. Most companies that buy an office suite start slowly, first installing the financial piece and then gradually adding new software. But Bollinger took what it calls the "big-bang" approach. It had nine shipyards working on old-fashioned systems on a Thursday and had them switched over in every area by the following Tuesday...
...they say at Disney, the park is the ride. It's a pleasure to browse in this imaginary Anytown; each quiet corner is art-directed with meticulous pizazz. Tread carefully on the elevated rope "netwalk"--a sort of Swiss Family Wallenda--in the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail. Stop to hear gorgeous spellbinder Nicole Barre spin an Indian fable, How the Rabbit Stole the Sun, in the Ahwahnee Camp Circle. Catch the charming film snippets of Rosie O'Donnell and Colin Mochrie in the Boudin Bakery pavilion. Wander through Paradise Pier, where you will find Wolfgang Puck's to-diet...