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Head start?

Ozawa has recently enjoyed great success in Vienna with productions of Verdi’s “Ernani” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades.” He has also conducted opera in Salzburg, at La Scala, the Paris Opera, the Met, and in Japan; since 1980, he has made opera an almost annual part of the repertory of the BSO.

- Ozawa to leave BSO in 2002, The Boston Globe, June 23, 1999.

2. It was supposed to be the week John McCain got his political mojo back.

The Republican presidential candidate, trailing Democrat Barack Obama in the polls and struggling for a coherent campaign message, embarked on a five-day barnstorming tour of the American heartland. The goal: to tout his command of the U.S. economy, promote the extension of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts and, perhaps above all, to show empathy with folks struggling through some hard financial times.

In Portsmouth, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Belleville, Mich., McCain’s message was the same: ‘I feel your pain, and I'm here to help.’

But then the wheels fell off the Straight Talk Express. When top McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm branded America “a nation of whiners” -- just as oil hit $147 US a barrel, the stock market sank and economists predicted 2.5 million people would lose their homes in 2008 -- it marked yet another untimely misstep in a GOP campaign that has yet to find its bearings.

Less than four months before the November presidential election, McCain’s uneven performance is causing frayed nerves among Republicans who believed the independent-minded Arizona senator gave the party its best shot at retaining control of the White House.