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...though I think they would have made great Time.com questions of the week. It makes me sad to think that I will be an old man before it is taboo to discuss whether or not homosexuals should have the same rights as other Americans. Frank Griggs Astoria...
Seven hundred, to be exact. In 1919, Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner founded the first one in Stuttgart, Germany as a free school for the children of laborers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory. Anthroposophy, the blanket term for his views on education, science, philosophy, religion, agriculture, drama and architecture, soon drew international interest. The first of about 160 Waldorf Schools in the United States was founded in Manhattan, in 1928, and the Long Island school, which I attended, followed...
...real problem may lie elsewhere: "As far as the politicians were concerned Sabena had been sold and they weren't interested in it any more," grouses Gacoms. When Sabena was nosing into its death spiral, in the summer of 2001, a remarkable meeting took place at the sumptuous Astoria Hotel in Brussels. Over dinner on July 16, four months before the company tanked for good, Prime Minister Verhofstadt and the new head of Swissair cobbled together an agreement - in secret. In exchange for a Swiss commitment to inject j258 million into Sabena and take over nine of the Airbus orders...
...Secret deal at Hotel Astoria between Belgian Prime Minister and Swissair CEO. Swiss to inject €258 million but not raise stake in Sabena. Suit is dropped...
...event, held at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, was a huge, gaudy success. Johnnie Cochran and P. Diddy made cameos, as did a coterie of men in full-length furs who sipped Cristal from gold chalices. The whole thing cost $100,000, a rounding error compared with what would be spent on the album's first video. With any luck, it would all come back tenfold...