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...never matched the glamour of contemporaries like Georg Solti but who was widely revered by fellow musicians; in Brescia, Italy. Sophisticated, subtle and averse to self-promotion, he was best known for nuanced interpretations of Verdi and Mozart and for ongoing stints as conductor for orchestras in Vienna, Chicago and Los Angeles...
STACEY PAUL -- Chicago...
...Washington, D.C., where King Tutankhamen began his American reign last December, the wait to get in to see his treasures averaged five hours. In Chicago, 2,000 lined up opening day to marvel at the glittering objects found in the tomb of the boy pharaoh who lived in the 14th century B.C. Now it is New Orleans' turn, and ... some of that old Mardi Gras madness has rubbed off on the Egyptian god-king. For starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent...
...nation's big nuclear power companies seem to be making enough money to hire more guards, who earn an average of $35,000 annually. Chicago-based Exelon Corp., for example, whose 17 reactors make it the largest nuclear-plant operator in the U.S., saw its power-generation unit triple its income in the first quarter of 2005 compared with first quarter 2004, from $102 million to $320 million. Operators may be worried about future profits, since the increasing move to deregulate electricity has forced most nuclear plants to compete with other electricity producers, all of whom are seeking to sell...
...specific and general insights into 9/11, al-Qaeda operations and ongoing planning for future attacks." But the initial questioning by the FBI went poorly. "We were getting nothing from him," a senior Pentagon official says. "He had been trained to resist direct questioning. And what works in a Chicago police precinct doesn't work...