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...thought it was great to see people from the whole writing community in one room," said Judith W. Steinberg, a poet who is currently at the Bunting Institute...
...Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, calls it "a smoking gun" and a true test of Swiss bona fides. "For 50 years," says Steinberg, "they have been telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still can't have it, the implications are monstrous. After all, this is their list, not ours." Jewish organizations in Europe and the U.S. believe Switzerland's vaults still hold prewar deposits that, with a half-century of interest, could be worth $3 billion to $7 billion today. Even...
...young Michael grew up in a musical household. Boyhood piano lessons were followed at the University of Southern California by studies with pianist John Crown and composer-conductor Ingolf Dahl, a summer stint as an assistant at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth in 1966, and an appointment as William Steinberg's assistant at the Boston Symphony Orchestra three years later...
Then, that October, came the myth-making break every young conductor dreams about: he was called in at mid-concert to replace the ailing Steinberg during a guest performance at Lincoln Center. Just as had happened 26 years earlier when his mentor Leonard Bernstein stepped in for Bruno Walter, the young stand-in performed brilliantly, the critics raved, and a new star moved to the front ranks of American conductors. His recordings were praised, and the Buffalo Philharmonic named him its musical director in 1971. But a 1978 marijuana bust at Kennedy airport tarnished his reputation, and by the time...
...addresses were targeted last week, ranging from the prestigious president@whitehouse.gov to the evocative rage@us.disarray.com The victims included the New York Times' chief Silicon Valley reporter, two leading hacker magazines, a couple of interns at MTV and a man who once ran a Hell's Angels computer bulletin board. Gene Steinberg, a free-lance writer from Scottsdale, Arizona, is convinced that he made the hit list because he publicly defended America Online on a Usenet newsgroup called alt.aol.sucks...