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Restaurateurs, led by John R. Clifford, the owner of the Green Street Grill, crowded the council chamber to register protests against the ordinance, which they said would hurt their business. They said diners will opt to eat in Boston or Somerville if the law is enacted...
...favor of doling out $10 billion worth of block grants that communities could spend as they saw fit. Some Senate Republicans-worried that voting down money earmarked for police might not play too well to the public-indicated the measure might be reworked when it arrives in the upper chamber...
With his dark suits and wing tips, Kasich evokes Chamber of Commerce orthodoxy--or he would if he ever managed to run a comb through his bowl-cut hair, which makes him look like an unruly teenager. He also has a penchant for the goofy. One Budget Committee brainstorming session opened to the strains of Wooly Bully punctuated by a Nerf gunfight between Budget staff members and lobbyists. He will wave a toy hatchet at an interviewer one moment and say earnestly the next: ``I want you to believe this, too, that intellectually what we're talking about is right...
...such extravaganzas, new productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Both look real enough to step into. Butterfly's fragile cottage is guarded by a line of sentinel iris standing in an authentic Japanese garden. The walls and ceiling of the doge's council chamber in Boccanegra, which opened in late January, are frescoed in Renaissance magnificence. Both settings are opulent backdrops for the crimes of the heart and of political passion on which the works turn...
...silenced by flu; and Cheryl Studer, who was to sing Boccanegra's daughter, canceled. In a remarkable piece of last-minute luck, the Met was able to sign Te Kanawa. On opening night the ensemble came through under conductor James Levine's eloquent direction. Only the massive council-chamber scene looked tentative. Viva grand opera that is grand...