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...clip the wings of Ryanair and other soaring low-cost rivals: the courts. Last week, Ryanair said it would suspend its four daily flights between London and Strasbourg as of Sept. 25 after a French court upheld an Air France complaint charging unfair competition. To attract Ryanair, Strasbourg's chamber of commerce and local authorities agreed last year to contribute €1.4 million to cover the airline's marketing costs over three years. Air France halted its Strasbourg-London service in June after seven months of grueling competition; it flew about 30,000 passengers on the route per year, while...
...Before long, Harding was plucked from university at 18 by Claudio Abbado, then chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, who wanted Harding to assist him. He made his full debut with the Berliners at 21. Now living in France, Harding is about to lead his second band, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The key to avoiding crippling nerves, he says, is never to allow them through the door: "You just have to think that you're not saying you're the best musician in the room, just that you know how to do your job. You're not telling these musicians...
Increasingly disillusioned by Soviet rule, Chagall left Russia in 1922. But before he did, he produced one of the high points of this show: a massive canvas that rarely leaves Moscow, Introduction to the Jewish Theatre. Created by Chagall to decorate that city's 90-seat State Jewish Chamber Theater, it was also a manifesto of his deliberately impure aesthetic, in which broad bands of color derived plainly from Suprematism are the backdrop--but only the backdrop--for resolutely nonabstract acrobats and livestock. In the lower right-hand corner, just above Chagall's signature, a man urinates directly into...
...behind-the-scenes tours of NASA facilities,” Kang said. “We got to see an Olympic-size, 40-foot deep pool that astronauts do dives in. There was a pressurized chamber run, which simulated oxygen levels at 35,000 feet...
...Brooklyn; after being shot by Othniel Askew, 31, an opponent Davis had brought into the building as his guest; in New York City. Having fended off a challenge from the political novice, Davis escorted Askew into City Hall without going through metal detectors. On the balcony overlooking the council chamber, Askew pulled out a gun and shot Davis in front of onlookers, then was shot to death by a security officer...