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...move toward charging for emissions is likely to prove popular with Livingstone's core supporters - blue-collar workers and a broad sweep of left-leaning metropolitan types concerned about climate change - as well as green campaigners across the world, who laud the congestion-charging scheme he first introduced in February 2003. The original daily $10 toll has been raised to $16, and the charging zone was extended westward last year. The mayor says that if a third of the 33,000 high-emissions cars daily entering central London continue to do so, the new scheme will generate a further...
...move Friday’s performance to Saturday because Julia S. Cavallaro ’08, who plays Fiordiligi, came down sick. In an effort to preserve Cavallaro’s voice, the part of Fiordiligi was sung by Vira Slywotzky, a New England Finalist in the 2008 Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions, from the wings of the stage while Cavallaro continued to act out her character’s two messy love affairs.“Così fan Tutte,” which means “women are all alike...
...problems have become increasingly evident to customers. China's airports are infamous for flight delays and cancellations. The CAAC reports an 80% on-time-arrival rate countrywide, but frequent fliers traveling through clogged metropolitan airports beg to differ. On Nov. 20, for example, more than 50 flights to and from Guangzhou and Shanghai were delayed, keeping more than 6,000 passengers waiting as long as 10 hours for takeoff. Such delays are often caused by conflicts with the country's military. The People's Liberation Army confines commercial aircraft to narrow corridors of airspace, and carriers must hold or cancel...
...Bernstein made famous in West Side Story. But by the early 1960s, the various components of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the first cluster of arts buildings in the U.S., were rising from their foundations. As intended by Robert Moses, the indomitable city planner, Philharmonic Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York State Theater and so on transformed the surrounding streets. Almost all that remains of the run-down old neighborhood is what you can see of it in the movie version of West Side Story, which was filmed partly in the tenements, long since demolished, just west...
...record 44 million visitors in 2006, who managed to leave behind $24 billion. A 2005 survey by the New York-based Alliance for the Arts found 7.5 million people visited primarily to get a culture fix. This helps to explain why the city's biggest tourist attraction is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which ushered in 4.6 million visitors in the year ended June 30, 2007. And also why, when the museum's longtime director, Philippe de Montebello, announced his retirement earlier this month, the New York Times treated it like the abdication of a king...