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...polished gem of a budget. What they got instead was a very rough stone that cuts local governments by $1.3 billion, welfare payments by an average of 6% and, most brutally of all, education funding by nearly $2 billion, or 2.2%. Even though Wilson agreed to an intricate 11th-hour compromise that spread some school cuts over two years -- despite the objection of major education groups -- the Governor was judged to have won most everything else in his battle for an all- cuts, no-new-taxes budget in line with what he called "our hardest times since the Great Depression...
...wasn't exhaustion from grappling with opposing forwards that finally caused Larry Bird, 35, to retire from basketball. Rather, it was the strain of stuffing all 6 ft. 9 in. of himself into airline seats and team buses every night. Citing chronic back pain, the National Basketball Association's 11th- leading all-time scorer and three-time Most Valuable Player has called it quits. "I'm excited to be going to a new life," said Bird, who will move to the Boston Celtics' front office. "But I'm going to miss this life." Celtics' fans were in mourning; during...
...Sulzberger is 40 going on 60 one minute, he can be irrepressibly coltish the next, leaping out of his chair in his 11th-floor office with its view of Broadway on the slightest pretext: checking with his secretary on whether he calls his father "Dad," "Punch" or "the chairman" (in public, it's "the chairman"); grabbing a book by a management guru he admires; pointing out the stand-up desk where he reads the paper at 7 each morning. At a birthday party at the 300-acre family estate in Connecticut (where the family dogs have their own memorial park...
...always benign; like the Venetians bringing back war plunder to St. Mark's, the Arab rulers symbolized their victory over the Christian infidel by taking bells from church spires and converting them into mosque lamps. The most impressive single work of sculpture in the show, the 11th century Pisa griffin, is so hybrid that without a context, scholars seem unable to decide where it comes from -- or even whether it is from al-Andalus at all. It may equally well be Egyptian, North African or Iranian, though the Pisans themselves (who installed it on the facade of their cathedral) believed...
Dunster finished the Straus competition in 12th place this year, falling from 11th place last year...