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...matinee performance was packed, with not an empty seat visible. The audience was richly rewarded for their time and responded with a thunderous, almost raucous standing ovation after the final "Amen" at the end of Part III, summoning the soloists and conductor back not once but thrice to express their appreciation...
...chance for the chef and the brew master to take a star turn and express themselves, to be creative," said General Manager Andy Cook...
...Carolinas because they opposed slavery, Wilmington remains a farming town, not a tourist mecca or fashionably quaint bedroom community. Corn has always been king here--an hour southwest of Columbus, an hour northeast of Cincinnati, 45 minutes southeast of Dayton--but now the overnight-shipping giant Airborne Express shares the crown. In 1980 Airborne turned a decommissioned Air Force base on the outskirts of town into its national hub, and the sleepy town's fortunes were changed. Before Airborne, the unemployment rate was 9.8%; two-thirds of Wilmington High School graduates had to leave to find work. But after years...
Kent Pickard unlocks the gate to one of his cornfields--one that abuts Airborne Express's vast shipping complex. "I'm right in the middle of it," says Pickard, 52, wheeling his old pickup through the gate and down a dirt road that ends at an Airborne fence. "From 4:30 in the morning, the airplane takeoffs are constant. Sometimes it shakes the ground under my tractor. Sometimes I think the tractor is coming apart...
...other U.S. allies ? for a summit which opens on Tuesday was heralded by Iran as a victory over Washington?s policy of isolating Teheran. Many of the same moderate Arab governments had stood up Albright last month at an economic summit in Doha in Qatar in order to express their displeasure at Washington?s performance in the Mideast peace process. Many observers believe this gathering will reinforce calls within the administration for a rethink of Mideast and Gulf policies: The recent Gulf crisis showed not only that Washington has little support in Europe and the Arab world for its Iran...