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Magellan's benefactors, though, never bankrolled a technical advance quite like the Allen Brain Atlas.
Since the early 18 th century, when George Friedrich Handel struggled to keep a company going in London, opera has been sustainable only with the help of subsidies--whether from aristocrats, governments, or corporate benefactors.
Let private benefactors pay for them, if the market won't support them (which it almost certainly won't).
Of course you're right about the cult-of-celebrity politics; it's just that I still don't understand how the two current benefactors of the American obsession with that celebrity got where they are.
Le Figaro of Paris splashed across five columns an allegation aired on French and German television that one of ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl's secret financial benefactors was late French President François Mitterrand.