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...trend that worries mainstream classical performers. The star cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks of a "vicious circle." Says he: "The way the record companies are working now is dangerous. When you go over and over the same Verdi and Puccini tunes, you shrink the repertoire and the industry constricts." In other words, by ignoring new classical music, by burying their budgets in the past, the record companies might be endangering their future...
...investment firm Morgan Stanley sent an e-mail of apology to its clients saying that the decision to have Clinton as a speaker at its Florida conference had "clearly been a mistake." The parent of the investment firm Paine Webber has canceled negotiations with the former president for a speech, fearing the controversy that would result from his appearance. The New York Observer newspaper ran a long article about how Clinton's society friends in Manhattan are having second thoughts about socializing with the former president. And finally, Bill Clinton spoke out yesterday about how he is being unfairly persecuted...
...likes of Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzon Mourning, Chris Webber, Grant Hill, Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant, along with Vince Carter from the 1998 draft, now stand poised to leave an indelible mark on their sport...
...deal that everybody wanted is done. Bill Clinton on Friday admitted making wrongful testimony in the Paula Jones case and is barred from practicing law in Arkansas for five years after he, Independent Counsel Robert Ray and Arkansas judge Susan Webber Wright struck a three-way deal for the knotting of all of Clinton's loose legal ends...
...more serious problem with Jane Eyre, which has been on the slow track to Broadway since opening in Toronto in 1996, is its uninspired score, with music and lyrics (beware of newcomers who do both) by Paul Gordon. Lacking either the melodic sweep of Andrew Lloyd Webber or the anthemic vitality of the Les Miz team, the music blends together into one pseudo-operatic murk. The lyrics, full of talk about spring mornings and secret souls, are no better, flattening Jane's spirit as firmly as any of her Victorian taskmasters. In the novel, for example, Jane makes a momentous...