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...city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) will be raising subway and bus fare from $1.50 to $2. But last Wednesday, New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi charged that MTA officials kept double books in order to justify the hike—raising commuter rail rates by around 25 percent, MTA bridge tolls by 50 cents and bus and subway fares by 33 percent. Hevesi said that $512 million in surplus was moved by MTA into the revenue column of later years. Another audit of NYC Transit found $850 million was mislabeled as operating expenses. These numbers are relatively...
This same type of humanities hypocrisy appeared back in 2001 when the Taliban began destroying all statues in Afghanistan. There was a groundswell of international support to save the two massive Bamiyan Buddhas, which were cut into a cliff more than 1,500 years ago. The Metropolitan Museum and others even offered to pay the Taliban for the safe removal of the statues. Where were the offers to help the people of Afghanistan escape the torture of Taliban rule? No one cared enough at the time, for, quite simply, the art was more precious than the people. (Incidentally, now that...
Fourteen months ago, after mulling a list of defunct Wi-Fi start-ups, Schell brought AT&T, IBM and Intel together to discuss a jointly funded $30 million Wi-Fi network blanketing 50 U.S. metropolitan areas. He dubbed the venture Project Rainbow. Each side could see the benefit: IBM sold approximately $1 billion in Wi-Fi services in 2002, Intel was looking for a way to get into the wireless chip game, and AT&T provided the communications backbone for 8 million road warriors. But as IBM's representative John Boutross remembers, the talks were initially very static: "These large...
...years to penetrate a tenacious cover-up by army and police officers. He says that records were withheld and much testimony was misleading. He blames a fire at his office on arsonists. But he didn't give up, even as he rose to become chief of London's Metropolitan Police, the most powerful police post in Britain. Stevens delivered his report just as the British and Irish governments are trying to revive Ulster's flagging peace process by persuading the I.R.A. to retire voluntarily. The province's power-sharing government has been suspended since a web of I.R.A. spies...
Paula Gerden, 51, a divorced foreign-currency trader in New York City, creates time in her schedule for friends by purchasing season tickets to the Metropolitan Opera. A few days before each performance, she invites one of her girlfriends to be her guest. "The great thing about the opera is the intermission," says Gerden. "You have 40 minutes where you're alone together talking about whatever you want. It's just a magical evening all around...