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...like a typo: new car registrations in Germany rose 21% year on year in February, the country's Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) announced on March 3. This, though, was no error. The 278,000 cars put on the road, crowed VDA president Matthias Wissmann, amounted to the highest level of sales in the month of February in a decade...
...want the New York Philharmonic to be more than an orchestra that happens to be in New York. I want the New York Philharmonic to mean something for all New Yorkers on some level,” he said. “An orchestra performing at the highest level should be a source of civic pride.” Throughout the course of the conversation, Gilbert offered up a personal account of the opportunities that the arts community at Harvard can provide, not just for those directly and personally involved but for all students.“Harvard...
...study at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and win her own gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition eight years later. After joining the Boston Ballet in 2003, Kuranaga has risen up through the ranks and was last week promoted to the company’s highest rank, Principal, in the midst of its “Jewels” run. One of Boston’s most beloved dancers, she is regularly invited to guest internationally, and as a homecoming of sorts, participated in SAB’s 75th anniversary gala performance with the New York City...
Meanwhile, there is popular disgust with the current crop of politicians, who are perceived to be ineffective at running the country and more interested in positioning themselves for the next presidential elections, set for 2012. Lawmakers recently fended off an attempt to tax their salaries, already among the highest in the world...
...Presidential budgets are traditionally a first offer in what has to be one of the highest-stakes negotiations in the world. Obama fully expects to not get everything he wants - his proposal to lower the rate of tax deductions for the wealthy looks to be dead on arrival - just as many moderates will likely have to hold their nose to vote for it. And now that they have the country's financial woes laid out before them, next year they are hoping to take out the knives. "At least this way people see the magnitude of the problem," says Representative...