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Big, narrative, tie-it-all-together museum exhibitions remain irresistible, but they are rarely as well done as "The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis," which has been packing the public into the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts through the summer and will continue until Nov. 10. How do you put...
The marketplace of ideas is not the South Street Seaport, a sprawling, nearly infinite metropolis-within-a-metropolis. It's more like Store 24--small, but open at all times for anyone to raid. Sure, there are occasional new items, but you're usually better off with the old selections...
But that did not settle the matter. A heated nationwide argument broke out about actually moving the government and its ministries from the somnolent little town on the Rhine -- whose only other major industry is a candy factory -- to the metropolis 375 miles farther east. In last week's deciding...
Yet there is no denying that the Kurds have made serious advances. After the relatively easy task of capturing barren countryside, last week they began to move on the cities, including Kirkuk, a metropolis of nearly 1 million people and the heart of Iraq's oil-producing north.
But hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers remain loyal to the sassy Daily News, which over the years has been celebrated in song (by Frank Loesser and Phil Ochs, among others) and screenplay (its Art Deco building on Manhattan's 42nd Street was reporter Clark Kent's workplace in the...