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...heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...foreign-ownership rules, which ostensibly exist for national security but which critics see as another case of protectionism. U.S. carriers themselves have benefited from foreign funding, especially during the industry's regular downturns. But the last thing domestic carriers want to see is another snazzy, low-cost competitor à la JetBlue. Any hope that the Administration will change the foreign-ownership rule is gone, partly because of political fallout surrounding a Dubai company's attempt to run some big U.S. ports. Branson, therefore, remains a dangerous...
Baars is a senior fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, Calif. His most recent book is In the Theater of Consciousness
...heads for long distances would certainly appreciate the possibility of turning knobs even if, in the eyes of Nouvel, it is archaic. May I suggest that 50% of the price of that contraption be given to a program to bring clean water to needy people? Antoine de Torrenté La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
...under the direction of Peter Gelb, seems to have gone movie-mad this season. Movie-director mad, anyway. Zeffirelli, the opera and film visionary, has four productions on the season's schedule: La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata and Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously...