Word: metropolitane
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...surprising so many students are in no hurry to leave America. Predictably, the biggest factor for international students looking to start their careers is financial opportunity—and with the most prestigious degree in the world’s richest country, those opportunities are overwhelmingly in American metropolitan areas. While many students say they would like to return home eventually, most plan on beginning their careers without stamping their passports home...
There's no credit or income requirement. The amount you can get depends largely on the value of your house but also on your age. The older you are, the more you can get, but loan caps usually range from $155,000 in rural areas to $281,000 in metropolitan areas...
...DIED. JEROME HINES, 81, bass vocalist who sang at the Metropolitan Opera for 41 years--longer than any other performer--playing 45 characters in 39 operas, including the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov; in New York City. Known for doggedly researching the psychological background of his characters, he gave 868 performances at the Met before retiring...
...their architects. Libeskind and his wife and partner Nina--she also manages his practice--are recognizable specimens of the global cultural elite. As a rule, they dress all in black and gray, the International Gothic of metropolitan chic. Nothing else about them is dour. His conversation, in particular, is a series of sharp, rabbity observations on history, music and architecture, punctuated by bursts of laughter. He reminds you of a cross between Martin Scorsese and Tickle Me Elmo...
This is simply a fact, and anyone lucky enough to be in the vicinity of New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art over the next nine weeks (through March 30) can readily check it out. "Leonardo da Vinci: Master Draftsman" opened last week, with nearly 120 drawings and a single barely unfinished painting, the Vatican's anguished St. Jerome Praying in the Wilderness. Assembled from collections all over Europe, Britain and the U.S., it is a prodigious curatorial achievement by Carmen Bambach and George Goldner, curator and chairman, respectively, of the Metropolitan's Department of Drawings and Prints. (Hercules...