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...intelligent, ambitious singer, Glyndebourne is a paradise. Promising beginners aim for the chorus in part because choristers are also the understudies. More established singers seek out Glyndebourne either to learn a role or to do spring cleaning on one they already know. But for an international star, going there is time consuming and economically disastrous. The commitment is to at least five weeks of rehearsals and about 14 performances, with a no-play-no-pay proviso and no stipend for rehearsal time. The top salary is $1,800 per performance; international stars earn as much as $12,000 a night...
...ongoing struggle with North Korea over its nuclear-weapons program entered a tense new phase as international inspectors said they had lost the ability to verify whether the country's engineers had diverted plutonium from peaceful purposes to bomb making. The Clinton Administration said it would seek economic sanctions against North Korea at the U.N. Security Council. North Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam warned that sanctions would "bring devastating consequences...
...most innovative step is for U.S. unions to seek aid from their labor brethren overseas when facing companies with international operations. Balked at organizing a Polyfelt plant in Evergreen, Alabama, the ACTWU appealed for help to Austrian unions -- some of whose leaders sat on the Supervisory Board of Polyfelt's parent company, OMV. The European unionists got the company to order its U.S. managers to tone down antiunion activities, and the ACTWU won a contract at the Alabama plant last month...
...those who do seek careers in the arts or who desire high-level instruction, the University as a whole does not seem to live up to its potential in teaching the arts...
Most professor say they are confident in Harvard students' ability to discern what they should know and to seek it out for themselves...