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...average couch potato about the slumping euro, and you'll probably hear all about Svetlana Khorkina's early mistrials on the uneven bars in Sydney. Far more meaningful, though, are the mistrials of the virtual currency that much of Euroland adopted in 1999 to simplify trade and build economic muscle. A spendable euro won't be in print before 2002. Until then, it's a calculation that 11 nations peg their currencies to, and so far it hasn't worked well for Europeans. Underscoring the trouble: Denmark last week elected not to join the Euro union...
They play elevator music on the radio in South Africa. Lionel Richie is still big in Poland. And the Backstreet Boys have hit the airwaves in Bulgaria. The reason I know all this, even though it's been years since I've been overseas, is that I've spent the past week tuning in to radio stations around the world on my home PC. I've tapped my toes to Celtic rhythms on LiveIreland.com caught the latest Euro-pop from Eldoradio in Luxembourg, and discovered my new favorite station: Radio Slovenia. I wasn't even sure where Slovenia...
...Usually tough guys have no humanity and warmth, and the guys with humanity and warmth are soft," says Attanasio. "Andre is unique in that he encompasses both." Braugher was so taken with Attanasio's script that he signed up even though it meant a weekly red-eye commute from Los Angeles to his wife and two sons in the New York City area, 14-hour days on the set and nights alone in a rented house. "To me, location is not vacation," he says...
...film's heart is surely in the right place, though it's hard to think how you could misplace its ticker and still have a releasable movie. In its way, it beats solidly too, following the rhythms of well-established cliches. First the team is ridden with mutual prejudice; then it starts to pull together. The two coaches' relationship is first gnarly, then affectionate. There's a goofy kid who learns to play, a star who is grievously yet inspirationally hurt in an accident and, of course, a kid who comes off the bench to help win the big game...
...problems continued. Though Danco attracted investors--the privately held company won't reveal their identity--the firm still had trouble getting full funding. According to the Wall Street Journal, the greatest infusion of cash came from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in the form of a $10 million, advantageously arranged loan. "They were not able to raise the money through regular channels," says Sarah Clark, head of the foundation's population program. "It didn't surprise me. It makes...