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...Chicago Symphony Orchestra has endured a 19% endowment drop, from $229 million last June to $185 million for this May. It's been about six years since Chicago's endowment has sunk so low, according to the orchestra's president, Deborah Rutter. But ticket revenues were actually higher this year compared to last. Though advance sales for the coming season are down 4%, Rutter is optimistic. The Chicago Symphony is among the lucky few that have yet to toy with thoughts of closing...
Alan J. McDonald, the lawyer for the officers association, said that the decision by the city and police department to drop the charges was made without the association's input. He added that "in retrospect, given the publicity that has transpired, it would have been better to let the matter go forward to a trial of fact so that the truth could have been disclosed by means other than debates in the media that we've seen over the last few days." Gates has said that he is open to the possibility of suing police, and Sergeant James Crowley...
...oppression of the Uighurs, is the subject of a documentary by Australian director Jeff Daniels. Entitled 10 Conditions of Love, the movie is showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which begins July 24. Festival Director Richard Moore said that he refused demands by the Chinese Embassy to drop the film, and hung up on an official who called last week to insist he justify its inclusion. "MIFF stands firm by its decision to include the documentary in the program," Moore said in a written statement. (Read "Why the Uighurs Feel Left Out of China's Boom...
...Haas said that the City and police decided on Tuesday to drop the disorderly conduct charge filed against Gates because "we basically felt this was a situation that we needed to move on from...
...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...