Word: relief
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...tickets and high quality in programming. The process of choosing a repertoire can be as political as it is musical, an inimical intersection between the vision of a governing board concerned with fund raising and a conductor concerned with musical integrity. But Ozawa's long tenure offers some relief--and a certain degree of autonomy. When the spry conductor leapt onto stage, the applause he received was as breathless as for a rock star. This applause was not of adulation. It was of respect. Ozawa does not need to choose a repertoire filled with the lite classical music that...
...Honduras struggles to recover from the worst hurricane in 25 years, Harvard students and faculty are pitching in to aid the international relief effort...
...chief of protocol arranged the state visits; and Yeltsin's personal interpreter did the German-to-Russian translating. The only things missing, a Moscow newspaper wagged, were Mrs. Yeltsin and a battery of doctors. Not to mention the gaffes, stumbles and truncated schedules. The Russian establishment reacted with relief. "It's so good to see the country represented by something other than a walking corpse," sighed a Foreign Ministry official. And as if to emphasize the quiet shift of power from Yeltsin to Primakov, press coverage of the Prime Minister's farewell visit to Yeltsin before leaving for Vienna included...
...context, it would be enough money to run the West Carrollton schools, where most Moraine children attend classes, for the next 400 years. As 1997 gave way to 1998, GM dangled the possibility of yet another plant before the Moraine city fathers, and they jumped. This time the tax relief amounts to an estimated $28 million--or about $156,000 for each of the 180 new jobs to be created...
...tasting some funky vegetables not often served at area dining halls, stop by a few local restaurants to partake in the Annual Collard Greens Festival. Some extra special collard greens are dished up for every lucky patron as part of the Food for Free initiative (a Cambridge based hunger relief organization committed to providing fresh food to nutritionally-vulnerable people in the community). Middle East Restaurant, 472 Mass. Ave., Central Square East Coast Grill, 1271 Cambridge St. Redbones Barbecue, 55 Chester St., Davis Square Asmara Restaurant, 739 Mass Ave., Central Square...