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...Survival is now the goal. With low endowments, even lower budgets, a lack of contributions and middling ticket sales, arts organizations from puppet theaters to tap-dance troupes are pruning their operations. In the past year, the Ohio Arts Council announced a series of three budget cuts. (See the top 10 guerrilla artists...
...reflect the resistance his Sarkozy-mandated bill has provoked. Leftists continue to assail its move to undermine a 1907 law prohibiting Sunday trading as only the first step toward the very generalization of travail dominical that Darcos denies. They also vow to challenge the law before France's Constitutional Council on the somewhat ironic grounds that by allowing only some shops to operate Sundays, it violates the rights of employees who may want to work on Sunday but whose shops are not covered by the reform...
...said that the decision to drop the charges had been made in consultation with the Cambridge City Council, Manager, and Solicitor, and said that the Department had been approached by Gates' attorney first...
...McCain and by Hillary Clinton, now his Secretary of State. Obama persisted, with reason: it was a good idea. How he proceeds now, after Iran's brutal electoral debacle, could be the most important foreign policy decision of his presidency. As Clinton made clear in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations two days before Rafsanjani spoke, the Obama Administration has not wavered in its desire for talks. And yet, the body language has changed. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...Delhi, was supposed to showcase the way India and the U.S. might work together to slow climate change. On the agenda was a tour of an ultra-energy efficient office building called ITC Green Center, which has earned the highest environmental rating from the U.S. Green Building Council. It was just the sort of project that exemplified how the world's second biggest carbon emitter (the U.S.) and the fourth biggest (India) could cooperate best - on high-tech projects designed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions...