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...There is nothing appropriate in either Cambridge or Boston, spacewise or acoustically. This should be great to work in-there's nothing comparable around," Cheryl Webber, of the women's chorus Libana, says of the Center's 200-seat auditorium...
...scene looked more like a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly than a civil trial, as San Francisco's Nourse Auditorium last week became the largest courtroom in memory. Dozens of lawyers at 28 counsel tables appeared before California Judge Ira Brown at the start of what could be an 18-month megatrial. At issue is who should bear the cost of asbestos-related lawsuits; 25,000 of them have been filed against some 30 companies, mostly by former workers ill with cancer and lung disease associated with breathing in asbestos fibers. In the San Francisco case, five former asbestos...
...regular courtroom could hold the 150 lawyers who are expected to be involved in the trial, so the parties agreed to pay for the renovation of an ornate but run-down former high school auditorium. The sprucing up will cost $200,000, plus another $200,000 for a computer system to keep track of the & 50,000 documents that may be introduced as evidence. Millions more, of course, will go toward the lawyers' fees. A dozen asbestos victims protested the high cost outside the courtroom on the trial's first day, although the huge proceeding will not necessarily affect what...
...intimate dimensions (only 1,300 seats) give it a light, cozy ambience. Trompe l'oeil reigns: columns that appear to be marble turn out to be made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like Goethe's Faust and Lessing's Nathan der Weise adorn the doorways; in the auditorium, the gilt chandelier is topped with the crest of the old Saxon monarchy. It illuminates a mid-19th century musical pantheon that includes Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer and Spontini...
...back of the hall, was stunned. Striding onto the podium, he demanded to know why the match had been called off. "You knew I wanted to continue," he shouted, shaking his fist. "They are trying to deprive me of my chance." With that, he stormed out of the auditorium. To quell the ensuing pandemonium, an unaccustomed diversion at Soviet press conferences, Campomanes called the players to a private one-hour 45-minute session, after which he announced that Karpov had accepted the decision and Kasparov would "abide by" it. But the young challenger was still furious. Outside the hall...