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...MODEST, HEALING PROPOSAL: since funding for the arts no longer seems a feasible practice in the U.S., why not send your arts dollars to Canada? Over the years, the Canadians have brought to the arts both a responsible and an inspired use of public funds. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with its urbane programming, provides a cool antidote to America's increasingly hotheaded airwaves. Toronto's ambitiously international Harbourfront reading series, which brings authors before live audiences, succeeds on a scale unknown in the U.S. And Canada's two primary drama festivals, the Stratford and the Shaw, are heartening examples...
...surtax on all insurance premiums. Says Bruce Kelly, the director of government relations at Mayo: "We endorse a set-aside program to fund research and teaching.'' But a delegation of teaching-hospital administrators who visited Capitol Hill in mid-May, sensing the draconian political climate, made only an exceedingly modest plea: if Medicare funding is cut, say, 13%, O.K., cut us 13% too -- but no more...
...Metropolitan Opera debut last year, the soft-spoken, long-haired Nagano, 43, has so far managed to avoid the kind of premature hype that can capsize a career. Indeed, the onetime beach boy from Morro Bay, California, is still not widely known in the U.S., holding only the modest post of conductor of the Berkeley Symphony. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well known," says Nagano, "but that doesn't work for me. I just try to let my enthusiasm for what I'm doing guide me to where I'm going...
...become all too clear that the offensive had slowed to a virtual standstill. As fighting in the mountains outside the city bogged down, the Bosnian government claimed that its objective had not, in fact, been to lift the blockade. Rather, it was announced, the operation had only a few modest goals: to cut several Serb supply routes, gain some strategic positions and keep Serb troops busy so that they would find it difficult to reinforce other units. "It's a limited-scope offensive," said Bosnian Prime Minister Haris Silajdzic. "We cannot lift the siege...
Everyone, maybe, except Howard, whose career disappointments have been precious few. Yet he is typically modest about the technical feat of making Apollo 13. "I always feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants," he says, chuckling. "I could carry the analogy further and say I haven't even come close to making a movie on autopilot yet. I hope I never...