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...soprano in shows from Manon to Cleopatra. Though she guested around the globe, the Met's Rudolf Bing, who scoffed at U.S.-trained artists, refused her a major role. (Sills' belated 1975 Met premiere, following Bing's retirement, earned a 20-minute standing ovation.) Her rise seemed inevitable. Witty, smart, tough and down-to-earth, the ebullient performer--nicknamed Bubbles--became a fine-arts ambassador, guest-hosting the Tonight Show and performing with the Muppets. She also raised funds for special-needs kids (her son is autistic, her daughter deaf). After retiring from the stage in 1980, she led such...
...much protection from the increasingly competitive luxury segment. Helmut Becker, an auto consultant and formerly BMW's chief economist, says the idea behind the failed Rover deal--to turn the firm into a two-brand company, one for the mass market and one a premium brand--was a smart one, since it would have enabled BMW to spread the huge cost of new-car development over a far bigger group. "BMW's main weakness is that life is getting ever narrower in the premium segment, and it needs volume growth. I'm not sure where it can get it from...
...kept up their online friendship for several months before it developed into something deeper. They then arranged to meet in Damascus. Any trepidation that Subhi, 29, may have felt before the meeting vanished within seconds. "She was exactly the person she appeared to be on Skype: vivacious, smart and open-minded," he says. Terpstra, 37, says she left Damascus convinced they had to get married. The two are now waiting for an opportunity for Subhi to travel to Norway...
...mail and web-browsing are unbelievably great. Ditto the crisp music and video playback. Everybody I called with the iPhone remarked on the crispness and clarity of the audio. For the iPhone, Apple has brought to market a revolutionarily smart, sensitive touchscreen and created an entirely new user interface to match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter - and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless - had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument...
Voice mail - you pick and choose visually what messages you want to hear - and Google Maps are ridiculously useful. The user interface is crammed with smart little touches - every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario). If you're not a reviewer, chances are you won't even bother to look...