Word: downtown
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Cleveland's problems are not all behind it, but under White's administration, there is a clear sense that the city is on an upswing. Downtown boasts not only a new $72 million light rail line to move tourists along the lakeshore but also Gateway Complex, which features a new baseball stadium and a basketball arena that lured the Cleveland Cavaliers back from the suburbs. Most important, the city's long period of fiscal crisis has subsided. After a general fund deficit that grew to almost $7 million in 1990, the city has balanced its books and has accumulated...
Tuesday Jobs heads for Boston, traveling commercial, albeit first class. Once there, he surveys the Castle, a puny downtown venue chosen months ago for what was expected to be a snoozer of a speech to Mac enthusiasts by Amelio. Jobs has assembled an army of showmen to orchestrate his--and Apple's--return to competition. There is theatrical lighting and a concert-quality sound system. He stares at the mega columns with the Apple logo cut into them, grimaces at their "Hitlerish" appearance, but decides it's too late to do anything about them. Then he sets to work...
...first part was a cinch: take the M60 from Ground Transportation to Manhattan. A short ride later, and there I was, on 125th Street and Lexington. Getting to 3rd Ave. and 45th Street from East Harlem? Piece of cake. Just transfer to a downtown bus, and look, there one is coming down Lexington now. OK, so the people on the bus gave me funny looks as I tucked my laptop between my feet and opened my complimentary Shuttle edition of the latest American Prospect: A Journal of the Liberal Imagination, but whatever; this is my public transportation...
...next thing I know, we are going back over the Triboro Bridge. And we are not going downtown, not at all. We are going to Wards Island...
...been taken seriously by devotees of the Great American Songbook. But Tyner's album, along with another new CD (Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach) produced by avant-garde composer and klezmer enthusiast John Zorn and featuring a number of musicians with jazz leanings from New York's Downtown school, makes the case that Bacharach's melodies are worthy of being standards. Tyner says he's "shocked" that more jazz musicians haven't taken them...