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...players upside down in absurdly impossible acrobatics, the ball shoots everywhere, occasionally leaving the table altogether and hitting passers-by on the head. At this year's Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where audiences and performers mingle in the local bars, I found myself facing off against the Chinese boy wonder's unique brand of uncompromising passion. For the record, he lost. Then again, only two hours before, he'd played the most exciting performance of Rachmaninoff's famously challenging Piano Concerto No. 3 I'd ever attended. So he could be forgiven for letting his football skills dip. Lang Lang...
...also know that in 10 years I'll look back and say, 'A grown-up? Then? Preposterous!'" Jonathan Lemalu, 27, New Zealand. This burly bass-baritone may have accomplished less so far than Lang Lang or Harding, but he's generating just as much buzz. And no wonder. At his Glyndebourne Festival debut this summer, playing Neptune in Mozart's Idomeneo, he riveted the attention with not only vocal power, but musicality in a flashy part that's too often just belted out. Lemalu is on the cusp of stardom. His first album last year, a rich collection of favorite...
...willingness to think seriously about the architectural possibilities of mud, a traditional African building material, is another reason Adjaye is the young wonder of the London design world. (Keep in mind that architecture may be the only job description other than eminence grise in which at 40 you still rank as a kid.) At age 36 he has on his resume a number of much discussed projects for some of London's better-known names in the world of art and design, including a house for the fashion photographer Juergen Teller and an addition for the actor Ewan McGregor...
...their hands. Plans to hire workers and spend on capital investment--the missing links in this recovery--changed little over the past four quarters (about 35% plan to add workers, and 41% plan more capital investment). The execs predicted unchanged revenue-growth rates too--which kind of makes you wonder why everyone is smiling...
...course it is. The administration won't admit that because there is more concern with winning next year's election, and a massive troop buildup in Iraq won't do. I wonder too about the mental health of the young men who do make it back. Is this Vietnam all over again? James Buonocore Largo...