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...greenhouse gas emissions or more testing of genetically modified organisms. But last week the European Commission made proposals to tackle an equally serious yet far more contentious issue: the decades of overfishing that have decimated fish stocks in European waters. The Commission's plan, put forward by fisheries Commissioner Franz Fischler, calls for dramatic cuts in commercial fishing fleets and the diversion of some $430 million that's currently used to subsidize the modernization of the E.U. fishing fleet into retraining programs to help fishermen find other jobs. All European Union countries would be affected, but those with the biggest...
...replace Nathan Lane as star of the hit musical The Producers, was suddenly fired. Not funny enough, the (small p) producers had ruled. For the new Max Bialystock, they tapped Brad Oscar, Lane's longtime understudy in the part. Oscar won a Tony nomination in the role of Franz, the Nazi author of Springtime for Hitler--a role he stepped into in Chicago when the original actor was sidelined by knee surgery. Oscar told a reporter last week, "I still can't believe it's my life...
Bridges was assigned to the William Franz Elementary School. The two other children who were assigned to the same school were withdrawn by their families before the school year began...
...symbol of the city's growing importance, its interior decorated with 41 kg of gold to "impress the eyes of friends and foes alike." Next to Andrassy Avenue is a stylish stretch of elegant 19th century neo-Renaissance and neo-Baroque mansions where wealthy locals, including the composer Franz Liszt, once lived. One building along Andrassy that is worth a stop is the famed and richly ornate State Opera (visits daily at 3 and 4 p.m.), once the preserve of Habs-burg monarchs. At the end of the long avenue...
Boston listened when the piano trio began playing Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat in the stately Cabot House Living Room yesterday afternoon...