Word: metropolitanism
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...especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works. Then in February, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return to Italy the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vase...
...especially the British Museum's Elgin Marbles, which were stripped from Athens' Parthenon in the early 1800s. Its efforts got a big boost last year, when Italian authorities put former Getty antiquities curator Marion True on trial for trafficking in looted works. Then in February, New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return to Italy the Euphronios krater, a 2,500-year-old vase. The Greek government is negotiating with the Getty for two other artifacts - a gold funerary wreath from the 4th century B.C., and a 6th century B.C. marble statue of a young woman...
...summer festival production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. Throughout her career, she made unconventional choices, favoring complex roles in little-known baroque operas as well as contemporary pieces such as John Harbison's The Great Gatsby, in which she made her 1999 debut at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, playing Myrtle Wilson. Audiences were enthralled by Hunt Lieberson's deeply passionate portrayals, but she once said they left her "crispy fried in every way." She last sang professionally in March in Neruda Songs, which was created for her by her husband, composer Peter Lieberson...
...Nevertheless, the thinking goes, if San Francisco's local plan for the uninsured takes off, it could be a model for other metropolitan regions nationwide. "This is a city that wants to right the proverbial wrongs," Newsom says. "We tend to march to the beat of our own drum and that, hopefully, is something that can awaken people's imaginations elsewhere...
...finishing school for not-necessarily-deserving boys whose parents can afford $44,000 in fees each year (Harvard costs nearly the same) to ensure they develop the easy confidence, posh accent and useful contacts that will guarantee access to the top of British society. At least among many metropolitan commentators, that fed an anti?private school, anti-Eton mood for years. A lot of smart money during the Tory leadership contest in 2005 discounted 39-year-old David Cameron simply because he was an Old Etonian. He had to fight the image: "It's not where you come from...