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...daunting as that of "St. Louis Woman," the 1946 Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical revived in 1998. "There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance numbers, were obliged to create - the musical settings. Topflight actor-singers signed on. And then the inspired rush to turn an old classic into a new one, all in a fortnight...
Cuba's reliance on tourism is a somewhat humbling turn for the revolution, which has long prided itself on producing topflight doctors and teachers--not concierges. But the island state had few other options once it lost its huge Soviet subsidies in 1990. Since then, it has built a $2 billion-a-year tourism industry that accounts for 41% of the country's hard-currency reserves. The annual tally of visitors has quintupled in the past decade, to 1.9 million. The island, roughly the size of Florida, has 11 international airports. With its appeal to mambo-era nostalgia...
...tour and every member of Augusta. So far, we haven't heard a peep out of most of them. Where's the pressure on corporate fat cats like Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who recently became a member, as sources told TIME? Where's the heat on such topflight pros as Phil Mickelson, Davis Love III, David Duval? None of them individually have the clout of Woods, but a protest by all of them would bring Augusta to its knees--and would let Tiger stop trying to be the Magic Negro and go back to playing golf...
Jordan had no illusions about leading the Wiz to a title this year. The plan was to shape them into the team he wanted and use millions of dollars in savings on the team's salary cap--Jordan makes only $1 million--available next year to sign a topflight free agent. Jordan will play one more year, the last last hurrah. But the Wizards have progressed so far that perhaps they will shop for a trade this year that will get them deeper into the play-offs. The Atlantic Division, where the Wiz play most of their games, is ripe...
...play. Like many an aristocrat before him, Lord Lloyd Webber (he was made a baron for life in 1997) has decided to add to his impressive digs in London. He and a partner paid slightly more than $150 million for the Stoll Moss group, adding its 10 topflight London theaters to his existing portfolio of three. The purchase makes Lloyd Webber Britain's most important impresario of commercial theater...