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...loss of the Globe-Democrat will leave metropolitan St. Louis (pop. 1 8 mil lion) with only one regional newspaper, the 105-year-old Post-Dispatch. It will also shrink to 50 the number of U.S. cities with independency owned, editorially competitive dailies. The failure defied several newspaper-industry rules of thumb: the morning Globe-Democrat (daily circ 255,000) is bigger than the afternoon Post-Dispatch (daily circ. 230,000); it is published at what is considered a more advantageous time of day; and it is, at least in terms of local coverage, the better paper Nonetheless, the economic...
CHIP has to extensive vefasry program that includes Beth graduate and undergraduate students who can who can received could credit for their work. The students work for more than 50 community organizations, assisting them on public health issues in placks throughout metropolitan Boston, including Brown's own neighborhood in Mission Hill...
Seven of the nine honorees attended the ceremony. Absent was artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a painter whose works hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney museum, and more than 40 other museums...
There was not an empty seat in the room as the five-member commission assigned to investigate the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino opened its first meeting in 24 days. The audience was particularly interested because General Prospero Olivas, Commander of the National Police for Metropolitan Manila, would present the military's official version of the events that led to Aquino's murder seconds after he stepped off a plane at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21. Instead, there was yet another surprise in the brief but checkered history of a commission whose credibility has been assailed...
This Saturday, as the Metropolitan Opera turns 100 years old, it is wrestling with this question as never before. The centennial celebration, to be telecast live on PBS, is an extravagant affair lasting eight hours; offering a nonstop parade of stars (Domingo, Pavarotti, Milnes, Sutherland, Nilsson, Te Kanawa, among 90 others), it seems to be a ringing affirmation of the opera-as-vocalism theory. But the Met gala is more likely a capstone than a portent, for the very nature of opera is being changed by history and technology. The Met-which began life...