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...flags and string it along the city's coastline. In Berlin German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder will attend an ecumenical service held in the Berlin Dom. Citizens of Anchorage will be able to make free long-distance phone calls to loved ones at a designated call center. The mayor of Birmingham, Ala., will dedicate the new Memorial Walk, which includes a ribbon-shaped sculpture and a flower garden. In Jerusalem a ceremony will be held at the Israel Museum, followed by an exhibit of Joel Meyerowitz's ground zero photos. In Cincinnati, Ohio, 343 empty pairs of boots will stand...
...around 11 or 12, and all I remember is the feeling that I wanted to be in the center of this," he says. "It never occurred to me that it would happen as fast as it did." At 25, he became principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he made his mark with an eclectic approach to the musical canon...
...Rattle promises that his iconoclasm will flavor the orchestra. His debut program last weekend featured a characteristically diverse selection: Mahler's Fifth Symphony and Asyla, a work by 29-year-old British composer Thomas Adès that Rattle commissioned while in Birmingham...
Discounters and majors alike will provide more direct flights between popular destinations, but the hub system will continue to play a major role because feeding passengers from smaller cities into central hubs is still the only way to move people from Sacramento, Calif., to Sarasota, Fla., or Birmingham, Ala., to Los Angeles at a reasonable price. American says the average layover will increase by 10 to 12 minutes, but many travelers could spend an extra 30 minutes to two hours sitting in the airport bar or browsing the newsstand, especially as airlines cut back the number of connecting flights...
...message that while he knows people are hurting, the economy is fundamentally sound, that "some bad apples" are being purged from executive suites and that new laws will deter such behavior in the future. Shortly after the President uttered his hangover line in a speech to business executives in Birmingham, Ala., the market regurgitated more than 400 points before recovering--briefly. The Dow lost 7.6% of its value last week. The broader market, as measured by the S&P 500, is now down 45% from the high it set in March 2000. Some companies' earnings were down last week...