Tadeusz Najbauer, deputy head of Solidarity's telecoms unit, says the unions need the package as a bargaining tool to fight restructuring plans.

ECONOMIST: Polish trade unions

Sir Clive Gillinson, head of Carnegie Hall, New York's main concert hall, thinks cinemacasts are a brilliant tool to promote opera with all its theatricality, though he warns that it will soon be a very competitive market as a dozen or so of the leading opera houses are likely to be doing it.

ECONOMIST: New York��s Metropolitan Opera has pioneered a new model