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...particularly high[an error occurred while processing this directive] concentration of great American painters - including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt - passed through the City of Light. From Oct. 24-Jan. 18, their labors will be on display in "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston...
...also recognized that there are good reasons for preserving land beyond preserving its beauty for our children. For example, the framers of the New York State Constitution inserted a clause in it declaring the Adirondacks “forever wild.” Now, the New York City metropolitan area, which gets most of its drinking water from the Adirondack watershed, has one of the best public water systems in the nation.These arguments are no less true today then they were in Pinchot’s lifetime. The answer to Bush’s irresponsible environmental stewardship...
...Elektra and Wagner's Isolde, Kundry and Brunnhilde (she sang Brunnhilde more than 300 times); in Munich. Her career took off unexpectedly in 1941 after she was called in as a last-minute, last-choice understudy to play Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walkure at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, where she eventually performed 200 times. Of her emotional style, she said, "I feel my roles first, then I put them into action...
...police arrested suspected terrorists who had about 3 tons of ammonium nitrate in their possession. Two months later, British authorities were able to announce the disruption of a plot to blow up multiple transatlantic flights--which would have caused, in the words of the deputy commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, "mass murder on an unimaginable scale...
...running, and the cruise ships that use New Orleans as a home port - and carry more than 700,000 passengers a year - will be back in service by the end of 2006. "We're back in business," says Kelly Schulz, vice president of communications for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. "A lot of people out there are thinking that New Orleans is not ready for visitors, which is not the case...