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...where public funding for the arts tends to be lower than in other large European nations, ENO faces an old and difficult challenge: marrying creative freedom with commercial viability. "It's the terrible tension between wanting to spend money and running your organization well," says David McNeill, a spokesman for Arts Council England (ACE), a public-funding organization. Since ENO's chairman, Martin Smith, has an investment banking background, critics are finding it easy to insist that he is driven by financial considerations above all else. Such an attitude, says actress Fiona-Jane Weston, who attended the protest...
...Kabul government, the alternative is a return to chaos. And so in recent weeks the U.S. military has assumed the kind of peacekeeping duties that the Bush Administration has sought to hand off to the 5,000-person International Security Assistance Force. Last month Lieut. General Dan McNeill, the commander of U.S.-led forces in the country, spent an afternoon mediating a border-tax dispute between rival warlords from Kandahar and Herat. After an hour of discussions at a house overlooking Herat, the trio emerged and broke into a round of hugs. "We've been drawn into this nation-building...
...Noorzai says when General Dan K. McNeill, the U.S. commander of operations in Afghanistan, and the American ambassador Robert Finn came to President Hamid Karzai's office they brought with them guarantees of massive assistance. "It's not compensation as such," says Karzai's spokesman Fazel Akbar. "It's support of the nation." This support consisted of $2 million dollars in cash to be given to Karzai. "There was the promise of cash aid but still we did not receive it," notes Akbar. The Minister Noorzai told TIME the money is to be distributed by the president "to the families...
...equestrian team is Harvard's own co-ed riding team, coached by Alice McNeill at Verrill Farm in Concord, Massachusetts, which competes as part of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association. According to Michael K. Haynie `00, the team's co-captain, the show team has done well this season. Haynie and Langdon Fielding `98 will both be attending the regional competition at Dartmouth in April, and nearly all the other riders have won ribbons...
DIED. DONALD MCNEILL, 88, radio-TV host for the 36 years of Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, a popular morning show with an amiability now lost in the age of Stern; in Evanston, Illinois...