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...consultant and jazz fan Peter Leimgruber. Some are small and resolutely pure, others gigantic, with programs full of rock and lite-jazz artists who make aficionados wonder why the promoters still call them jazz festivals. While Europe's love for improvised music remains strong, the festival business is getting tougher as competition stiffens, artists' fees rise, and government subsidies fade. Is this all too much of a good thing? Jan Ole Otnes, the director of Europe's oldest jazz fest - the Molde Jazz Festival, in Norway - thinks it is. Just 10 years ago there were only four summer jazz festivals...
...League will for the first time cap the number of athletes its eight members may recruit and enroll and subject those athletes to tougher academic standards, the presidents of the schools decided June...
...core customers for extreme-sports gear--climbers, adventure racers, trekkers, mountain bikers--torture their clothing and equipment and constantly tell firms how to improve it, demanding tighter seams, tougher fibers, better fit and lighter weight. As the gear has improved, the commandos have latched on. The North Face recently added a camouflage fly to one of its expedition tents in the hope of making more military sales. In every other way, says Jill Pagliaro, a spokeswoman for North Face, "the design for Alpine athletes and military usage is similar...
...paranoia, has won adulatory reviews. After the first preview at the Albery Theatre, the actor was plainly exhausted as he sipped champagne in his dressing room. "It's so draining," he exclaimed, in mock agony, "How can I do this for 10 weeks?" Fiennes takes on an even tougher challenge at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, playing the puritanical priest of Brand. "You have to rehearse and play Ibsen at a high temperature or the cake won't rise," says its director, Adrian Noble. "That's an extraordinary strain and amazing challenge for an actor like Ralph." And the ethereal Richardson...
Summer jobs are tougher to come by than they have been in many years. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the hiring of college graduates fell 36% from 2001 to 2002 and isn't expected to pick up in 2003. Students find themselves competing for internships and summer programs with newly minted grads willing to take anything to get a foot in the door. "The traditional recruiters who've hired from us for years [for summer programs] are hiring fewer students. Some aren't hiring at all," says Joan Mark, director of cooperative education and career services...