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...Critic Liu says rich - and rude - audiences are giving the music he loves a bad name. "People think of classical-music lovers as pretentious dabblers," says Liu. That negative impression stems in part from the high ticket prices commanded by international groups. Despite burgeoning enrollment at classical-music conservatories and an expanding market for classical music countrywide, many music lovers in China are priced out of performances by top-tier musicians. Tickets to the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic this month start at 280 renminbi (about $38). Such pricey seats, particularly when filled by unappreciative listeners, could prevent...
...could hardly use more strife this season. This summer the league had to hold a "concussion summit" to tackle the growing problem of career-shortening brain injuries suffered on the football field. Older retired players, broken and broke, clamored for better disability benefits, portraying the league, its rich young players and their union as greedy. Bad player behavior--Adam (Pacman) Jones' involvement in a strip-club shooting, Vick's ties to a dogfighting ring--forced commissioner Roger Goodell to enforce unprecedented penalties for off-field incidents. Then there were tragedies: Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was murdered early New Year...
...immediate cause of the latest price jump was unrest in oil-rich Nigeria, but the bigger issue is that not enough new supply is coming online to make up for declining production at many existing fields...
...reminders that principle is hardly a reliable currency in FARCland. The left-wing Chavez learned an important lesson about the 20,000-strong rebel army: it couldn't care less about its public relations image because it is powerful and rich enough not to have to care. Maybe it could have been counted on to keep its word a generation ago, when combating Colombia's epic social inequalities was still its primary objective. But today the FARC, which controls a mammoth swath of southern Colombia, is widely considered to be a ruthless mafia that earns as much as $1 billion...
Turkey has long been hostile to the emerging power of Iraq's Kurdish minority, located primarily in northern Iraq. Concerned that Kurds might take control of the oil rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Turkey inserted itself into Iraq's domestic political problems by dubiously claiming stewardship of Kirkuk's minority Turkoman population (with whom ethnic Turks share a distant Central Asian past and little else.) More recently, Turkey has demanded that Iraq's Kurds rid northern Iraq of the PKK, a job that the government-sanctioned Kurdish peshmerga militias are unable to do. The peshmerga are currently overstretched in Baghdad...