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...Carbone, former Metropolitan District Commission chief, said the next governor must be able to "manage problems" and work with what will likely be a Democrat-controlled legislature...
...case grew out of attempts by the Metropolitan Transit Authority to crack down on panhandling in New York City subway cars and stations, but the ruling has nationwide implications. Seeking to stem the proliferation of needy and homeless in a system that serves 1 billion passengers a year, the MTA last October launched its so-called Operation Enforcement. Within weeks, two homeless panhandlers -- Papa Joe Walley, 50, and William Young Jr., 40 -- complained to the Legal Action Center for the Homeless that they were being harassed by the police while begging in the subway. The center filed a class action...
...June Anderson, and where does she get off being so -- well, so demanding? For starters, she is the newest diva on the international music scene. Her coronation came last fall with her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the season's major event. "Ah, she is beautiful!" croons Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive...
...usual in the artistic world, today's new phenom is yesterday's hardworking apprentice. Anderson grew up in Wallingford, Conn., taking voice and dance lessons. She grew too tall to dance (today she stands 5 ft. 10 in.), but at 17 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. She hated the process. "I'm determined, but I can't step on someone else to get ahead. I hated the competitiveness." Instead she went to Yale and majored in French literature, graduating in 1974. She gave herself two years to become famous and has been working at it ever...
While the EPA has experimented with the trading of pollution rights within metropolitan areas, the Bush plan would make the practice more widespread. At first, pollution permits could be bought and sold throughout a state, and eventually the market would be nationwide. Though Bush's current target is SO2, such a trading system could be set up for just about any kind of pollutant. Last year the Government decreed at least a 15% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. But Washington is letting the four CFC manufacturers decide how to allocate the pain; they can buy and sell...