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          MARK MCCORMACK's efforts with IMG MUSIC are profiled in
     ATTACHE magazine and Michael Cannell writes, "Nobody has
     done more than McCormack to turn sports into big business.
     Now he is trying to do the same thing for classical music
     and opera.  McCormack has unsettled its purists over the
     last few years by unexpectedly placing himself as a dominant
     agent for singers, musicians, and conductors, and a producer
     of music spectacles staged in unconventional settings"
     (ATTACHE, 6/98 issue)....N.Y. POST columnist JACK NEWFIELD
     includes filmmaker MICHAEL MOORE in his "Yankee Doodle
     Salute to 10 Heroes" for his work in detailing working
     conditions at Nike's Asian factories (N.Y. POST, 7/2).
     ...LARRY KAUFFMAN, the son of Royals Founder EWING KAUFFMAN
     and a member of the team's Board of Directors, died
     Wednesday of an apparent heart attack (K.C. STAR, 7/2). 

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