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...Nibelungen, has been regarded as the Mount Everest of music, a daunting work that remains the ultimate test of operatic mettle. Despite its imposing demands, the Ring has been scaled repeatedly in the past four years -- at Bayreuth, San Francisco and Seattle, among other places. Last week the Metropolitan Opera took up the challenge, opening its 103rd season with a production of Die Walkure, the first installment of a new Ring...
...said the drug "generally is not available" in some major cities, * including Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans, and is not widely available in many other metropolitan areas. In addition, contrary to some news reports, the DEA found little evidence that crack use had spread from inner cities to many suburbs. The study concluded, "Crack presently appears to be a secondary rather than primary problem in most areas." Ironically, the DEA report received little coverage: it did not make the CBS or the ABC network newscasts that night, was passed up by the New York Times and ran on page...
...long before dawn on Aug. 26, Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, and Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, strolled into New York City's Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Something happened between them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder...
...urging of Giacalone, Gotti has been denied bail and currently resides in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It is a comedown for the flashy, fastidious man who likes driving his black Mercedes 450 SL, sampling the delicately prepared pastas at little-known Italian restaurants, and playing the courtly gentleman in his double-breasted $1,800 suits. At 45, Gotti -- his once lean figure having become stocky but his imperious gaze just as chilling -- is a mixture of the old and new Mafia styles. Like the traditional mobsters, he does not flinch at the promiscuous use of violence; informers report...
Just as Daniloff was getting sprung from Lefortovo, U.S. marshals in New York City, where it was early afternoon, escorted Gennadi Zakharov from the Metropolitan Correctional Center to a Brooklyn federal courtroom for a hearing that took all of three minutes. The Soviet U.N. employee stood ramrod- straight and stone-faced as Judge Joseph McLaughlin read the espionage charges against him. Zakharov said only, "Not guilty." The judge then told him that "contingent on the prior or simultaneous release of Nicholas S. Daniloff," he too was being let go in the custody of his ambassador. Other conditions also were nearly...